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+# many entries lifted from https://seirdy.one/robots.txt
+# several also come from https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots#verified-bots
+# and still others from https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
+
+# adtech
+
+User-Agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
+Disallow: /
+
+
+
+
+
+# IP-violation scanners
+
+User-Agent: TurnitinBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: AcademicBotRTU
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: NPBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: SlySearch
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: BLEXBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: CheckMarkNetwork/1.0 (+https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html)
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: BrandVerity/1.0
+Disallow: /
+
+
+
+
+# Identity data scraper
+
+User-agent: PiplBot
+Disallow: /
+
+
+
+
+
+# Gen-AI data scrapers
+
+User-agent: GPTBot
+User-agent: ChatGPT-User
+User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: Google-Extended
+User-Agent: GoogleOther
+User-Agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
+User-Agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
+User-Agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: Applebot
+User-agent: Applebot-Extended
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: ClaudeBot
+User-agent: Claude-User
+User-agent: Claude-Web
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: FacebookBot
+User-Agent: meta-externalagent
+User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
+User-Agent: meta-externalfetcher
+User-Agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: Cotoyogi
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: Webzio-extended
+Disallow: /
+
+User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: GenAI
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
+User-Agent: SemrushBot-FT
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: Amazonbot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: PetalBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: PerplexityBot
+User-Agent: Perplexity-User
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: DuckAssistBot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: anthropic-ai
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: MistralAI-User
+User-Agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: cohere-ai
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: Quora-Bot
+Disallow: /
+
+User-Agent: Scrapy
+Disallow: /