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The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

Global Published 31 October 2026, 01:26 · archived 30 Oct 2026

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually. The shared "policy token" signal […]

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