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Media Watch: Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft Make It Easier to for Publishers to Opt Out of Being Scraped

By David Schonauer   Monday November 9, 2026

Right now, if publishers don’t want their sites to be scraped by AI companies, they  have to block each company’s crawlers individually. But, notes Nieman Lab, on Oct. 30, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft said they would support a common robots.txt signal that, per OpenAI, “makes it …

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