▲ | debazel 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
robots.txt is not there to protect your ad-based business model. It's meant for automated scrapers that recursively retrieve all pages on your website, which this browser is not doing at all. What a user does with a page after it has entered their browser is their own prerogative. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | mattigames 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
>It's meant for automated scrapers that recursively retrieve all pages on your website, _which this browser is not doing at all_ AFAIK this is false, and this browser can do things like "summarize all the cooking recipes linked in this page" and therefore act exactly like a scraper (even if at smaller scale than most scrapers) If tomorrow magically all phones and all computers had an ad-blocking browser installed -and set as the default browser- a big chunk of the economy would collapse, so while I can see the philosophical value of "What a user does with a page after it has entered their browser is their own prerogative", the pragmatic in me knows that if all users cared about that and enforced it it would have grave repercussions in the livelihood of many. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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