this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

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Support / Questions specific to lemmy.ca.

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Right now, robots.txt on lemmy.ca is configured this way

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog

Would it be a good idea privacy-wise to deny GPTBot from scrapping content from the server?

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I imagine they rate limit their requests too so I doubt you'll notice any difference in resource usage. OVH is Unmetered* so bandwidth isn't really a concern either.

I don't think it will hurt anything but adding it is kind of pointless for the reasons you said.