youtube-nocookie.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, youtube-nocookie.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 2fa6e69f8cb35fbc… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 025dc6bfcfc93a7b…

# robots.txt file for YouTube
# Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after
# the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bulletin
Disallow: /comment
Disallow: /forgot
Disallow: /get_video
Disallow: /get_video_info
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /results
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /t/terms
Disallow: /t/privacy
Disallow: /verify_age
Disallow: /videos
Disallow: /watch_ajax
Disallow: /watch_popup
Disallow: /watch_queue_ajax

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

Evidence

Every daily observation of youtube-nocookie.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/youtube-nocookie.com