Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square196fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year 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.communitylinkfedilinkEnglish-4•1 year 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 😭