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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Yup, it's the same approach as email spam traps. Except the naughty list, but... holy fuck a shareable bot IP list is an amazing addition, it would increase the damage to those web crawling businesses.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

but with all of the cloud resources now, you can switch through IP addresses without any trouble. hell, you could just browse by IP6 and not even worry with how cheap those are!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that throws a monkey wrench into the idea. That's a shame, because "either respect robots.txt or you're denied access to a lot of websites!" is appealing.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

That's when Google's browser DRM thing starts sounding like a good idea 😭