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Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Quora should be respecting robots.txt, but also why are the NYT etc. serving the full article to the Quora bot anyway?

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 months ago

Usually NYT sets a cookie to track how many free articles you read and once you exceed that, you get the paywall. The bots probably don't set/send the cookies, so NYT doesn't block them. Also, I'd imagine the bots are coming from various different IPs so even server side blocking based on IP wouldn't block everything and eventually the bot would get to the article. User Agents can also be spoofed.