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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

"We always obey the robots.txt"

A bunch of corporations that have no accountability and plenty of incentive to just ignore it and have all been caught training AI on off-limits data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Rate limiting could “fix” that unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're likely blocking user agents too, which I think also doesn't have legal enforcement (as in DuckDuckGo can just use "Google" unless they said otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LinkedIn tried blocking scraping that way but as long as the scraping isn't burdensome it's basically legal but you can still be bound by TOS and civil claims

https://natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-proposed-settlement-landmark-scraping-case