Does mashable.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite mashable.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
• Claude: its search crawler is blocked
• Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked

mashable.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.

AI crawler access, bot by bot

How mashable.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; mashable.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; mashable.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; mashable.com is one of them.
• Among 172 sites of similar popularity, 22% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AIWebIndex
User-agent: amazon-QBusiness
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: Anchor Browser
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: ApifyBot
User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: AutoRAG
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: AzureAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Big Sur AI
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Code
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
User-agent: Code
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Cursor
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Datenbank-Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Direqt Anomura
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: ExaBot
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iAsk
User-agent: iAskBot
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC Crawler
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageSiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: kagi-fetcher
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Kangaroo-Bot
User-agent: Kimi-User
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: Kunato
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: LINER Bot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: mistral.ai
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: Novellum AI Crawl
User-agent: Novellum
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: opencode
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PeopleInc-DCipher-Scraper/1.1.0
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: Reflectionbot
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBotSwa
User-agent: Shap-User
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: TalarionSearchBot
User-agent: TerraCotta
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TongyiBot
User-agent: Trae
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: UseAI
User-agent: Velen Crawler
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: Wrtn
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
User-agent: YepBot
User-agent: YiyanBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
Allow: /ad/tech/how-to-set-up-the-smartest-galaxy-ai-features-on-your-new-samsung-galaxy
Allow: /ad/tech/how-the-samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-turns-your-next-festival-into-content
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Allow: /*?page=[0-9]

User-agent: "008"
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: DDM-DCipher/1.0.7
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: Scrapy
Allow: /ad/article/samsung-galaxy-ai-changing-smartphone-photography
Allow: /ad/article/how-samsung-galaxy-ai-can-upgrade-your-smartphone
Allow: /ad/article/samsung-galaxy-ai-automates-everyday-tasks
Disallow: /

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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