Mastodon user questions email gates vs AI scraping

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A user on Mastodon is asking the Fediverse community about the effectiveness of email gates in preventing AI bots from scraping website content. They note that traditional robots.txt files are often ignored by bots. AI

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RANK_REASON This is a user question on a social platform about a technical issue, not a significant industry event or release.

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Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 · [email protected] · 2026-05-17 17:42

have an #AI question for the Fediverse. How successful is having the "give us your email before you can read this article" at preventing AI bots from scraping y

have an #AI question for the Fediverse. How successful is having the "give us your email before you can read this article" at preventing AI bots from scraping your site? I know robots is basically ignored at this point... (gonna tag @[email protected] in case he knows)

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have an #AI question for the Fediverse. How successful is having the "give us your email before you can read this article" at preventing AI bots from scraping y

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