Blocklist · Meta

Sites that block FacebookBot

905 of the 27,797 domains we have measured, 3%, disallow facebookbot at the site root in robots.txt. FacebookBot collects content that may be used to train a model.

Every domain here has withheld its content from Meta's training crawl. That is a separate decision from appearing in the operator's answers, which is governed by a different token.

The measurement

905 of 27,797 measured domains (3%) disallow facebookbot at the site root in robots.txt. Every domain named on this page was fetched directly and its robots.txt parsed against RFC 9309; none of it is inferred from a third-party index.

Measured 2026-08-24 by direct request to every domain in the corpus. Method: how this is measured. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

Cite as: Crawl Census, "Sites that block FacebookBot", measured 2026-08-24. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/facebookbot

The list 905 domains

RankDomainTLDAI access score
58 yahoo.com .com 69
62 msn.com .com 34
79 vimeo.com .com 68
125 snapchat.com .com 63
155 gravatar.com .com 70
157 nytimes.com .com 65
160 tumblr.com .com 51
190 cnn.com .com 50
193 theguardian.com .com 60
204 forbes.com .com 72
260 launchpad.net .net 46
278 forter.com .com 93
281 nature.com .com 58
282 weather.com .com 79
457 cnbc.com .com 61
499 aol.com .com 60
543 patreon.com .com 60
552 usatoday.com .com 75
556 alrosa.ru .ru 62
571 uol.com.br .br 74
627 dailymail.co.uk .uk 62
628 nintendo.com .com 79
629 techcrunch.com .com 79
662 cnet.com .com 75
671 lemonde.fr .fr 72
681 dailymail.com .com 62
710 bandcamp.com .com 61
726 ted.com .com 63
815 theverge.com .com 68
823 nbcnews.com .com 63
869 figma.com .com 80
926 genius.com .com 60
941 healthline.com .com 70
942 repubblica.it .it 77
1,019 theconversation.com .com 52
1,027 huffpost.com .com 82
1,042 spiegel.de .de 72
1,074 flashscore.com .com 67
1,083 nypost.com .com 73
1,098 franceinfo.fr .fr 66
1,104 idnes.cz .cz 73
1,105 cookpad.com .com 66
1,177 pimpbunny.com .com 61
1,189 aftonbladet.se .se 71
1,208 vg.no .no 73
1,223 furaffinity.net .net 41
1,232 pandora.com .com 48
1,273 ladepeche.fr .fr 80
1,275 huffingtonpost.com .com 82
1,286 actu.fr .fr 76
1,300 f95zone.to .to 49
1,305 dw.com .com 36
1,381 ilmeteo.it .it 80
1,409 iltalehti.fi .fi 50
1,442 buzzfeed.com .com 58
1,456 eenadu.net .net 73
1,624 flashscore.mobi .mobi 63
1,640 flashscore.fr .fr 64
1,676 livescore.cz .cz 63
1,687 espn.com.ve .ve 44
1,765 newsweek.com .com 68
1,831 zdnet.com .com 61
1,835 wikihow.com .com 72
1,847 arstechnica.com .com 72
1,984 themoviedb.org .org 61
1,988 mos.ru .ru 74
1,993 ign.com .com 64
2,010 mashable.com .com 62
2,085 medicalnewstoday.com .com 71
2,116 fliphtml5.com .com 84
2,118 variety.com .com 80
2,189 vox.com .com 68
2,230 meb.gov.tr .tr 60
2,258 mparticle.com .com 57
2,299 guardian.co.uk .uk 60
2,324 abcnews.com .com 78
2,325 nrk.no .no 61
2,346 slate.com .com 80
2,351 diretta.it .it 64
2,352 rollingstone.com .com 83
2,423 pcmag.com .com 65
2,508 yr.no .no 61
2,530 smh.com.au .au 69
2,561 technologyreview.com .com 75
2,562 zeit.de .de 71
2,581 hollywoodreporter.com .com 79
2,656 tmdb.org .org 66
2,691 newscientist.com .com 57
2,786 chicagotribune.com .com 75
2,951 asahi.com .com 72
2,969 today.com .com 59
2,974 thehindu.com .com 50
2,975 imageshack.us .us 29
3,116 newsbreak.com .com 84
3,154 mapquest.com .com 72
3,179 crunchbase.com .com 67
3,198 metro.co.uk .uk 56
3,224 tagesschau.de .de 80
3,253 billboard.com .com 78
3,276 myanimelist.net .net 65
3,286 flipboard.com .com 60
3,342 lifehacker.com .com 63
3,371 nymag.com .com 71
3,418 deadline.com .com 81
3,437 tagesspiegel.de .de 69
3,542 orf.at .at 67
3,587 br.de .de 81
3,588 stuff.co.nz .nz 50
3,595 politico.eu .eu 62
3,603 macomnet.ru .ru 59
3,617 boston.com .com 84
3,621 nydailynews.com .com 71
3,633 ndr.de .de 76
3,642 yahoo.net .net 77
3,676 handelsblatt.com .com 78
3,771 yle.fi .fi 80
3,796 ardmediathek.de .de 69
3,869 pcworld.com .com 77
3,882 radiofrance.fr .fr 80
3,909 aol.de .de 60
3,916 news24.com .com 56
3,963 nos.nl .nl 61
3,966 bostonglobe.com .com 78
4,065 seekingalpha.com .com 79
4,107 thestar.com .com 60
4,108 howtogeek.com .com 83
4,161 kompas.com .com 80
4,199 mainichi.jp .jp 58
4,304 tvtropes.org .org 41
4,330 snopes.com .com 85
4,333 derstandard.at .at 53
4,354 computerworld.com .com 77
4,407 20minutos.es .es 85
4,431 swr.de .de 72
4,484 mdr.de .de 73
4,493 wdr.de .de 87
4,551 yna.co.kr .kr 83
4,579 srf.ch .ch 81
4,684 msnbc.com .com 73
4,753 xda-developers.com .com 81
4,766 adweek.com .com 67
4,791 collider.com .com 81
4,816 polygon.com .com 81
4,927 iol.co.za .za 65
5,037 imageshack.com .com 29
5,096 nine.com.au .au 71
5,115 bleacherreport.com .com 69
5,146 everydayhealth.com .com 57
5,153 theage.com.au .au 63
5,158 mercurynews.com .com 75
5,205 lapresse.ca .ca 62
5,223 oilprice.com .com 90
5,229 eltiempo.com .com 79
5,230 ms.now .now 73
5,274 csmonitor.com .com 74
5,357 larazon.es .es 76
5,395 makeuseof.com .com 82
5,401 mediamarkt.de .de 84
5,413 expressen.se .se 58
5,416 gentoo.org .org 57
5,455 gamerant.com .com 79
5,463 rainews.it .it 67
5,678 dn.se .se 63
5,684 theepochtimes.com .com 80
5,714 francetvinfo.fr .fr 62
5,752 sankei.com .com 76
5,769 degruyter.com .com 61
5,772 zetaglobal.net .net 87
5,775 tv2.no .no 70
5,788 ibtimes.com .com 84
5,874 hs.fi .fi 68
5,879 cio.com .com 85
5,895 movieweb.com .com 85
5,904 windstream.net .net 53
5,912 pagesix.com .com 80
5,936 qobuz.com .com 82
5,993 eonline.com .com 74
6,042 sporcle.com .com 87
6,064 delfi.lt .lt 80
6,088 futura-sciences.com .com 93
6,089 azcentral.com .com 69
6,125 denverpost.com .com 79
6,159 instiz.net .net 42
6,180 tf1info.fr .fr 84
6,184 nyt.com .com 65
6,194 ifixit.com .com 73
6,228 sbnation.com .com 69
6,245 raiplay.it .it 55
6,246 eurogamer.net .net 57
6,288 vulture.com .com 71
6,308 wwd.com .com 78
6,356 freep.com .com 73
6,361 ici.fr .fr 87
6,365 icons8.com .com 51
6,386 huffingtonpost.co.uk .uk 82
6,396 parismatch.com .com 74
6,446 mumsnet.com .com 79
6,512 telegram.com .com 73
6,513 sandiegouniontribune.com .com 79
6,522 eater.com .com 67
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Rank is the domain's position in the popularity list used to seed the corpus; a dash means it was scanned on request rather than seeded. Score is the site's overall AI access score, which blocking depresses but does not by itself determine.

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See also the FacebookBot reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.