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Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

www.theverge.com

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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt

www.theverge.com

Andy Reid to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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The rise and fall of robots.txt
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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
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  • @Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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    2•1 year ago

    Just thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list

    • @Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      While there are some extensions that do this, last I saw Google didn’t use Chrome for populating Search:

      https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chrome-to-discover-new-urls-for-crawling/

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