Move keep-internet-working.yaml before deny rules in Anubis policy#520
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This change ensures
robots.txt(andfavicon/.well-known/) are always served regardless of user-agent, since rules are evaluated in order and a denied UA would never reach the allow rule (and thus keep scraping since it can't readrobots.txtand see that it's not allowed to scrape).In the nginx logs we have repeated visits from
GPTBotdespite it being blocked byrobots.txt(and their docs saying they do respect this file). Looking at the Anubis logs, a lot of requests for this file is currently being denied by Anubis, which would explain why we see blocked user-agents still visiting us.