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