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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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There are more crawlers than I have fucks to give, you'll be in a pissing match forever. robots.txt was supposed to be the norm to tell crawlers what they can and cannot access. Its not on you to block them. Its on them, and its sadly a legislative issues at this point.
I wish it wasn't, but legislative fixes are always the most robust and complied against.
yes but also there's a point where it's blatantly obvious. And i can't imagine it's hard to get rid of the obviously offending ones. Respectful crawlers are going to be imitating humans, so who cares, disrespectful crawlers will ddos your site, that can't be that hard to implement.
Though if we're talking "hey please dont scrape this particular data" Yeah nobody was ever respecting that lol.
Both paragraphs demonstrate gross ignorance