Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square195fedilinkarrow-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 Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square195fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agoYeah, 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.
minus-square@Nighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThat’s when Google’s browser DRM thing starts sounding like a good idea 😭
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 😭