Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

I just got an email from Amazon saying they're finally going to respect robots.txt. Here's the verbatim email I got: We are writing to inform you that starting Monday, June 15, 2026, crawl preferences for Amazonbot will be managed solely through the industry-standard directives. This gives you direct, ongoing control over how Amazonbot accesses your site, rather than relying on manual requests. If you do not implement robots.txt directives by that date, Amazonbot will follow standard web crawling practices when accessing your site. How to maintain your current preferences: The robots.txt protocol allows you to control Amazonbot’saccess at the page-, directory-, or site-level and update your preferences at any time. Please find detailed information on Amazonbots approach to these directives here: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot. Best, Amazon Publisher Support amazonbot@amazon.com Get Outlook for Mac NumaAmazing, they even kept the "sent from my iPhone" message proving they sent…