Adds a noRobots shortcode that generates a block of text that's hidden visually and from screen readers, in an attempt to poison the well for large-language model scrapers. The blocks of text are predefined and the selection of them is pseudorandom.
Install via npm.
npm install --save-dev eleventy-plugin-no-robots
Import the plugin in your eleventy.config.js and pass it to eleventyConfig.addPlugin.
// eleventy.config.js
import noRobots from "eleventy-plugin-no-robots";
export default function (eleventyConfig) {
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(noRobots);
}Add the shortcode to your layouts if you want it on all pages.
<body>
{% noRobots %}| Property | Type | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
prompts |
string |
[] |
In case you want to add your own spice. |
verbose |
boolean |
false |
Outputs additional logs. |
- Wallfacing
- Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well
- Rage against the machine
- Perplexity AI is susceptible to prompt injection
Further actions you can take in a similar vein:
- Add user agents from ai.robots.txt
- Blockin' bots on Netlify using edge functions
- Blocking Bots With 11ty And Apache
I make no claim that any of this provably works, but it feels nice to at least try something.