Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
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Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#2How to turn your site ( and/or fediverse instance) invisible for Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), Twitter and OpenAi ChatGPT.
Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#3Hmm, I use NPM (Nginx Proxy Manager) to manage my Nginx, I think I'll look into ways to implement this into that
Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#4How to turn your site ( and/or fediverse instance) invisible for Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), Twitter and OpenAi ChatGPT.
and also potentially iOS/iMessage previews[0], which may not be a desired outcome.
[0] https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/137914/spike-...
Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#5why not use robots.txt
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#6why not use robots.txt
That assumes they'll honour it, either now or in the future.
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#7Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#8why not use robots.txt
why not both?
and check your logs to see who is not complying
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#9That’s fine until SEO scrapers eat your site and regurgitate the content somewhere else.
Once it’s online, it’s online.
Re: Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
#10Copying my comment here for additional discussion:
Worth noting that most of these bots are 'good bots' (i.e. they will obey robots.txt). So you can avoid the nginx resource usage entirely by adding suitable robots.txt entries.
I think using nginx tests like this could have negative effects on showing OpenGraph metadata (including images).
If choosing this approach however I would probably respond with a 403 code to mark forbidden as bots are more likely to continue making attempts if they think the server would come back online.