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Cloudflare will penalize verified bots that ignore robots.txt and rate-limit signals with lower trust scores

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Cloudflare is planning to assign lower trust scores to verified bots that disregard robots.txt directives or ignore HTTP 429 rate-limiting responses.

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Cloudflare announced plans to introduce trust-band scoring for verified bots that bypass robots.txt files or ignore HTTP 429 slow-down signals, allowing customers to set their own thresholds for enforcement. The company has not yet announced a launch date for the feature.

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