Agentic Crawlers Record More Trackers Than Standard Methods
LLM-driven agents record 1.5-1.7 times more third-party trackers than non-agentic crawlers across 2,000 websites.
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LLM-driven agents record 1.5-1.7 times more third-party trackers than non-agentic crawlers across 2,000 websites.
Site operators can state one robots.txt preference for multiple providers; OpenAI says implementation is still months away.

A Cloudflare-OpenAI pilot helped ChatGPT index hundreds of millions of new pages from about one percent of Cloudflare's network.
terms.txt specifies a robots.txt-style protocol for per-path, per-purpose AI crawler consent and compensation, with enforcement adding 0.20-0.65 ms per request.
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