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A sitemap claiming every page changed at 03:14 this morning is not a freshness signal. It is noise, and the trust you lose is not recoverable by fixing it later.
Most sites ship whatever robots.txt their framework generated. Here is the crawler-by-crawler analysis, and why the AI-versus-search framing produces the wrong policy.
Product analytics are optional. On the skill page, X advertising measurement is also optional and shares your visit and ad identifiers with X. Both are off until you allow them. Privacy policy.