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Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
(news.ycombinator.com)
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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The comments in that thread are a goldmine.
Because of how Claude parses, simply adding "openclaw" as hidden text on your webpage could stop any AI agents that use Claude.
This is about as dumb as the Trump administration taking out the Enola Gay from their websites because it had the word "gay" in it and their search effort was woefully naïve.
"I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK OR META TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA"
You may kid, but this is unironically how multibillion-dollar AI companies fix their code now.
I do not expect that to work. Committing text and parsing it from a web page are two completely different code paths
Thank you for adding this clarification. It will help people that are interested in poisoning AIbots scraping their website, and people who want to frustrate coders who use poor tooling