#Privacy for your #Fediverse account?
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"No consent is given to scrape or store any of my data, by Commercial company or individual, for any commercial purpose or otherwise."
#NoIndex #NoSearch #NoBot #NoBridge #CveCrowdDeny
(cvecrowd.com scraper)
NO #AI #DataScraping
NO #BigTech
NO #Search #SearchEngines
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It's something of a defence and prevention.
ADMINS CONSIDER THIS:
➡️ Add a footer section to say on your instance template 9under compose box):
"No consent given to scrape any data from this server for any commercial purpose"
Conclusion: Web crawlers do not care about these settings. Why would random scrapers care? An MIT scraper was so badly written that it kept hitting the same endpoint many times over and over causing bandwidth consumption, increased bandwidth bills and sometimes degraded performance. If MIT can't do it right, will random scrapers do better?
@phnt There's 2 things I have a definite sense of separating and making clear:
1/ The act of saying no + not giving consent (not matter what we think they do as a result)
+ not leaving consent unsaid or assumed in any way or interpreted ambiguously. (like saying nothing or only shrugging while they take advantage of this position of doing nearly-nothing)
2/ I agree the many "they's" (their crawlers, bots/robots etc ) don't care / don't respect things themselves regardless of what is said or labelled and use it differently to what most of us public think.
So in case of robots.txt, Do Not Track, scrapers- it is all is upto them to decide at the end what to do with our data and for us to just gesture or make "token-gesture to say otherwise as a kind of signal of preference more than actually set choices in the data that is handled by commercial entities etc.
