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I'm wondering about deploying Nepenthes on my personal site. To punish any AI crawlers.

zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

On the one hand I'm wary about tanking my search rankings, on the other... I'm not finding the major search engines much good anymore anyways!

I do like SearchMySite, but I *think* its smart enough to not be tripped up by it.

zadzmo.orgZADZMO code
OliverUv

@alcinnz any search engine worth its salt honors robots.txt so using that you can protect them. These tools were specifically made to punish those who do not honor robots.txt

As far as I'm aware, google still honor it

@OliverUv The issue as I understand it is that any bot would see the Nepenthes tarpit, even will behaved ones. So unless the crawler's limiting how much of your site it visits...

Or we could ask well-behaved bots not to crawl the tarpit, I'm guessing the misbehaved ones won't honor that hint...