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Share of German top-1000 websites blocking each AI crawler
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A quarter of Germany's biggest websites now block the AI crawlers

We analysed the robots.txt of all 1,000 most-visited German domains. GPTBot, ClaudeBot & co. are being blocked systematically — news sites hardest of all. And some of the blocking appears in no robots.txt.

Ideal Syka·July 3, 2026·5 min read

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