• Kairos
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    99 months ago

    Are you aware of what “unlisted” means?

    • @AA5B
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      9 months ago

      Yes, and there’s also no law against calling an unlisted phone number

      Also we already had this battle with robots.txt. In the beginning, search engines wouldn’t honor it either because they wanted the competitive advantage of more info, and websites trusted it too much and tried to wall off too much info that way.

      There were complaints, bad pr, lawsuits, call for a law

      It’s no longer the Wild West:

      • search engines are mature and generally honor robots.txt
      • websites use rate limiting to conserve resources and user logins to fence off data there’s a reason to fence off
      • truce: neither side is as greedy
      • there is no such law nor is that reasonable
      • Kairos
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        39 months ago

        There’s also no law against visiting an unlisted webpage? What?