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How to block The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) from archiving your website

robots.txt

User-Agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

Archive.org always abides by robot.txt rules, but if you want to directly block your website from being archived send an email to: info@archive.org

Check The Wayback Machine FAQ for more detailed information.

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