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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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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