Ignacio to [email protected] • 11 months agoDisallow GPTBot to access your siteplatform.openai.commessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish10•11 months agoOr don’t do anything. There are plenty of crawlers out there and disallowing won’t stop the unethical ones.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•11 months agoJust because some people might break into my house doesn’t mean I’ll stop locking my doors.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agothat doesn’t lock anything, it’s not a security feature.
minus-squareArakwarlinkfedilink5•11 months agoA house door lock isn’t that much about security either.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•11 months agoIt’s a deterrent. Which is a pretty apt comparison for robots.txt and user agent blocking.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•11 months agoThat is the point. They don’t need to be secure to work as a deterrent
Or don’t do anything. There are plenty of crawlers out there and disallowing won’t stop the unethical ones.
Just because some people might break into my house doesn’t mean I’ll stop locking my doors.
that doesn’t lock anything, it’s not a security feature.
A house door lock isn’t that much about security either.
It’s a deterrent. Which is a pretty apt comparison for robots.txt and user agent blocking.
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That is the point. They don’t need to be secure to work as a deterrent