Andy Reid@lemmy.world 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-square195fedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down115cross-posted to: technologytechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up11.07Karrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square195fedilinkcross-posted to: technologytechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agoLoads of crawlers don’t follow it, i’m not quite sure why AI companies not following it is anything special. Really it’s just to stop Google indexing random internal pages that mess with your SEO. It barely even works for all search providers.
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe Internet Archive does not make a useful villain and it doesn’t have money, anyway. There’s no reason to fight that battle and it’s harder to win.
Loads of crawlers don’t follow it, i’m not quite sure why AI companies not following it is anything special. Really it’s just to stop Google indexing random internal pages that mess with your SEO.
It barely even works for all search providers.
The Internet Archive does not make a useful villain and it doesn’t have money, anyway. There’s no reason to fight that battle and it’s harder to win.