[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60805: Reading Settings: add option to discourage AI services from crawling the site

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#60805: Reading Settings: add option to discourage AI services from crawling the
site
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 Reporter:  jeherve          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Privacy          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:  privacy
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Changes (by rickcurran):

 * keywords:  has-patch =>


Comment:

 Hi, I recently posted a ticket and PR related to the same issue
 (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62257), I would like to encourage
 some focus on this issue if possible. It's great to see a prior ticket
 exists for this, but I think the necessity for a core feature to block AI
 bots has increased in the months since this original ticket was created, I
 think I make a case for this in my PR / ticket which I think you can see
 linked above now.

 I think @jeherve's idea of a checkbox to toggle this on or off makes
 sense, along with the ability to filter the list of User Agents. I do
 think this should default to being checked, I think the issue is important
 enough to warrant a strong stance, but perhaps this status could be
 brought to the WP admin's attention in some way such as a post-upgrade
 message so that they can then choose how they would like this set? When
 "''Discourage search engines from indexing this site''" is checked there
 is a message "Search engines discouraged" in the "At a glance" widget on
 the Dashboard which indicates this state, so a similar message there would
 make sense too.

 (Side issue / thought: Should there be a regular, more prominent reminder
 to check these settings? There is a periodic reminder post-login that asks
 Admins to confirm if the admin email address is still correct, so there is
 a precedent for reminding users about certain configuration settings,
 perhaps this falls in to the "Site Health" check as well?).

 Thanks!

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