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80% -- ai crawler blocking rate for Top news publishers (2025)
Nearly 80% of top news publishers block at least one major AI crawler according to 2025 Press Gazette research.
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80%
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2025
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Press Gazette
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https://indexcraft.in/ai-search/optimize-perplexity-chatgpt-gemini-search ↗
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Top news publishers: 80% ai crawler blocking rate. Source: Press Gazette (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/publishers-blocking-ai-crawlers-2025
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