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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Turning that into a law is ridiculous - you really can’t consider that more than advisory unless you enforce it with technical means. For example, maybe put it behind a login or captcha if you want only humans to see it

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago

Are you aware of what "unlisted" means?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, and there’s also no law against calling an unlisted phone number

Also we already had this battle with robots.txt. In the beginning, search engines wouldn’t honor it either because they wanted the competitive advantage of more info, and websites trusted it too much and tried to wall off too much info that way.

There were complaints, bad pr, lawsuits, call for a law

It’s no longer the Wild West:

  • search engines are mature and generally honor robots.txt
  • websites use rate limiting to conserve resources and user logins to fence off data there’s a reason to fence off
  • truce: neither side is as greedy
  • there is no such law nor is that reasonable
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 9 months ago

There's also no law against visiting an unlisted webpage? What?

this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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