• @[email protected]
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    179 months ago

    What social contract? When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says “only Google may crawl”, and are effectively helping enforce a monolopy, that’s not a social contract I’d ever agree to.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      59 months ago

      When sites regularly have a robots.txt that says “only Google may crawl”

      Is that actually true?

      If so, why would they do that?