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.
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
| Rank | Domain | TLD | AI 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.
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See also the OAI-AdsBot reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.