133 of 10,099 Shopify stores block an AI crawler. Six block the one ChatGPT shops with.
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Merchants are told two opposite things about AI crawlers: block them, because they take your content and give nothing back; and admit them, because that is how a store gets into an AI shopping answer. Both assume a decision is being made. We wanted to know how many stores have made one, and which w…
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- 2026-09-06 00:33 · DEV Community — AI
133 of 10,099 Shopify stores block an AI crawler. Six block the one ChatGPT shops with.