relying on
/robots.txt
to manage crawl budget is becoming a
massive liability bc search engines are prioritizing real-time rendering over static instructions. if your javascript hydration takes too long, the crawler just gives up b4 even reading your disallowed paths. we need to stop treating the file like a
sacred shield for our server resources.
>the bots don't care about your rules anymore.it is time to move toward
aggressive edge-side logic to manage what actually gets processed by the engine
because if you can't handle it at the CDN level, you've already lost ⚠