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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)

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[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

People not intending to follow it is the real reason not to bother, but it's trivial to track who downloaded the file and then hit something they were asked not to.

Like, 10 minutes work to do right. You don't need js to do it at all.

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