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bySlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) writes:
Destroying website? No, that's bullshit.
Destroying website page views by giving the user the data without attribution or even visiting the site? Yea. that's totally happening.
It's not damaging any sites. It's damaging the revenue of a few sites and their pissed. Perhaps rightly so. But the horses have left the barn and the barn has burned down.
byComputershack ( 1143409 ) writes:
Look Ma it's an AI apologist. So you're saying Cloudflare is full of shit and they don't know what they're talking about?
bySlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) writes:
Did Cloudflare say that AI bots were destroying websites? If so, I missed it. Perhaps you could show me that part?
byjonsmirl ( 114798 ) writes:
A good way to solve this would be to use the Google antitrust trial to force the creation of a single crawler for the entire web which puts all of the results in to a single, central repository. Everyone can then use that central repository, while charging the users of the repository enough fees to break even on the costs. The antitrust settlement would require Google to construct this central repository. Once the repository exists, all crawling outside of this centralized crawling would be blocked by coor
byeasyTree ( 1042254 ) writes:
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