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AI Crawlers Are Bankrupting Small Sites—Block Them Before Your Bill Arrives

Your site's humming along, serving real readers. Then bam—AI crawlers like Meta's ExternalAgent devour gigabytes of bandwidth, spiking your bills and slowing everything down.

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