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]linkfedilinkEnglish99•edit-21 year agoThe open and free web is long dead. just thinking about robots.txt as a working solution to people that literally broker in people’s entire digital lives for hundreds of billions of dollars is so … quaint.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•1 year agoIt’s up there with Do-Not-Track. Completely pointless because it’s not enforced
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoDo-Not-Track, AKA, “I’ve made my browser fingerprint more unique for you, please sell my data”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoI bet at least one site I’ve visited in my lifetime has enforced it
The open and free web is long dead.
just thinking about robots.txt as a working solution to people that literally broker in people’s entire digital lives for hundreds of billions of dollars is so … quaint.
It’s up there with Do-Not-Track.
Completely pointless because it’s not enforced
Do-Not-Track, AKA, “I’ve made my browser fingerprint more unique for you, please sell my data”
I bet at least one site I’ve visited in my lifetime has enforced it
you’re jaded. me, too. but you’re jaded.
i prefer “antiqued” but yes