Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up1947arrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1932arrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square123fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85arrow-down1·edit-27 months 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-squarelightnegative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 months agoIt’s up there with Do-Not-Track. Completely pointless because it’s not enforced
minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoDo-Not-Track, AKA, “I’ve made my browser fingerprint more unique for you, please sell my data”
minus-squareEmerald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months 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