ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain
ChatGPT’s crawler GPTBot, which spiders the internet to capture information and turn it into knowledge, is the most-blocked bot on the internet, according to Cloudflare’s 2025 year in review. Meanwhile its biggest rival, Google, is the No. 1 most-allowed crawler. And perhaps even more interestingly, while ChatGPT is the most-blocked bot, it’s actually Anthropic’s Claude AI engine that is the least reciprocally beneficial service for website owners.
Every year internet infrastructure company Cloudflare publishes an analysis of what’s happening on the internet.
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"...to capture information and turn it into knowledge." Could this author literally gargle Altman's balls in their throat any harder?
Sigh... It's Forbes. It's what they're citing that I find useful and something to chuckle at.
I might make another attempt to read this later but I stopped at that exact spot with an irrepressible urge to call bullshit.
Here's the Cloudflare link they're pulling from in case people want to go straight to the source https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
Added it to the post.
It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn't make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.
Information already is knowledge, and that's not what gpt does.
Information is contextualized data. Knowledge is contextualized information. Wisdom is contextualized knowledge.
And tomato does not belong in a fruit salad
Holy shit, that's actually a real quote from the article(!) That's just shameful writing.
Yeah the sentence should really be rewritten as "to capture knowledge already accessible on the internet, and repackage it into an utterly pointless hallucinating RAM guzzling money pit"
Traffic, not content...
But still, we're getting there
Does the article describe human bots?
I wouldn't be surprised if we've already passed that for new content. I can't search for anything nowadays without it being clearly AI written garbage, especially for guides for video games.
At least when someone on GameFAQs made some shit up it was a human being looking to troll you, not some statistical bullshit machine trying to generate page views for ad revenue
.christmas ? Who is in charge of this shit?
If you mean which top level domains exist, that's ICANN. If you mean who administers the .christmas domain specifically, that's Uniregistry (owned by GoDaddy).
without reading the article, I'm guessing it's the cheapest when you buy a domain
...the leading cause of internet outages is government-directed shutdowns?