• SerotoninSwells
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    135 months ago

    I don’t think it’s a bad idea but it’s largely dependent on the crawler. I can’t speak for AI based crawlers, but typical scraping targets specific elements on a page or grabbing the whole page and parsing it for what you’re looking for. In both instances, your content is already scrapped and added to the pile. Overall, I have to wonder how long “poisoning the water well” is going to work. You can take me with a grain of salt, though; I work on detecting bots for a living.

    • ✺roguetrick✺
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      215 months ago

      I work on detecting bots for a living.

      You should just tell people you’re a blade runner.

        • @Tangent5280
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          25 months ago

          You see a turtle, upended on the hot asphalt. As you pass it, you do not stop to help. Why is that?

          also that job title is cool as fuck

          • SerotoninSwells
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            15 months ago

            I agree and I wish I was actually that cool. I just look at data all day and write rules. 🫠