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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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[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Just thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Perhaps some web extensions already do this and phone home about it.

[-] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

While there are some extensions that do this, last I saw Google didn't use Chrome for populating Search:

https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chrome-to-discover-new-urls-for-crawling/

this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024

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