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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're second point is a good one, but you absolutely can log the IP which requested robots.txt. That's just a standard part of any http server ever, no JavaScript needed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

You'd probably have to go out of your way to avoid logging this. I've always seen such logs enabled by default when setting up web servers.