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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by TravisKelce@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] palordrolap@kbin.social 238 points 10 months ago (28 children)

Put something in robots.txt that isn't supposed to be hit and is hard to hit by non-robots. Log and ban all IPs that hit it.

Imperfect, but can't think of a better solution.

[โ€“] nullPointer@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

a bad-bot .htaccess trap.

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