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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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I would be shocked if any big corpo actually gave a shit about it, AI or no AI.
Robots.txt is in theory meant to be there so that web crawlers don't waste their time traversing a website in an inefficient way. It's there to help, not hinder them. There is a social contract being broken here and in the long term it will have a negative impact on the web.
Yeah I always found it surprising that everyone just agreed to follow a text file on a website on how to act. It's one of the worst thought out/significant issues with browsing still out there from the beginning pretty much.