Right now, robots.txt on lemmy.ca is configured this way

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog

Would it be a good idea privacy-wise to deny GPTBot from scrapping content from the server?

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Thanks!

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6 points

Probably want == instead else we will all be forbidden

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I would have thought so too, but == failed the syntax check

2023/08/07 15:36:59 [emerg] 2315181#2315181: unexpected "==" in condition in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lemmy.ca.conf:50

You actually want ~ though because GPTBot is just in the user agent, it’s not the full string.

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Strangely, = works the same as == with nginx. It’s a very strange config format…

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html#if

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Look at me! I’m the GPTBot now!

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