Blocklist · OpenAI

Sites that block OAI-AdsBot

1 of the 25,822 domains we have measured, 0.0%, disallow oai-adsbot at the site root in robots.txt. OAI-AdsBot fetches a page live when a user asks the assistant for it.

Every domain here has removed itself from OpenAI's answers. Blocking a retrieval agent withholds nothing from model training, because training uses a different token.

The measurement

1 of 25,822 measured domains (0.0%) disallow oai-adsbot 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 2026-08-23 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 OAI-AdsBot", measured 2026-08-23. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/oai-adsbot

The list 1 domains

RankDomainTLDAI access score
3,335 infojobs.net .net 51

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.

Check a specific domain

See also the OAI-AdsBot reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.