Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down116cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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 · 11 months agomessage-square200fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up98arrow-down1·edit-211 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-up27·11 months agoIt’s up there with Do-Not-Track. Completely pointless because it’s not enforced
minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 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-211 months agoI bet at least one site I’ve visited in my lifetime has enforced it
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoyou’re jaded. me, too. but you’re jaded.
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoi prefer “antiqued” but yes
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
you’re jaded. me, too. but you’re jaded.
i prefer “antiqued” but yes