Andy Reid to [email protected]English • 1 year agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square197fedilinkarrow-up11.09K
arrow-up11.09Kexternal-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square197fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year agoYou’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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoYou’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.
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.
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.