Cynicus Rex to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 months agoHow to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt filewww.cyberciti.bizexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down133
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minus-square@thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.calinkfedilink13•3 months agoLie. Or at best, dangerously wrong. Like saying “Crosswalks make cars incapable of harming pedestrians who stay within them.”
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish-4•3 months agoIt’s better than saying something like “there’s no point in robots.txt because bots can disobey is” though.
minus-square@thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.calinkfedilink3•3 months agoMaybe? But it’s not like that’s the only alternative thing to say, lol
minus-square@ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-23 months agoIs it, though? I mean, robots.txt is the Do Not Track of the opposite side of the connection.
Lie. Or at best, dangerously wrong. Like saying “Crosswalks make cars incapable of harming pedestrians who stay within them.”
It’s better than saying something like “there’s no point in robots.txt because bots can disobey is” though.
Maybe? But it’s not like that’s the only alternative thing to say, lol
Is it, though?
I mean, robots.txt is the Do Not Track of the opposite side of the connection.