{"id":183049,"date":"2024-02-19T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-rise-and-fall-of-robots-txt"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:31:37","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-robots-txt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-rise-and-fall-of-robots-txt","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of robots.txt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-rise-and-fall-of-robots-txt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}