• ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      While I can see the plus side of being able to identify bots, I don’t think the WEI is the right way to do it, and Google definitely isn’t the right company to be handling it

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        Plus how do you spot the difference between a good bot and a bad bot? Web crawlers from search engines are for example inherently good, so they should still be able to operate, but if it is easy to register a good bot in WEI, it is also easy to register a bad bot. If it is hard to register a good bot, then you’re effectively gatekeeping the automated part of the internet (something that actually might be Google’s intention).

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          1 year ago

          I was thinking the same thing about Google wanting their bots to be the only ones allowed to crawl and index the internet.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      I just wish everyone would switch to Firefox.

      It is because Chrome has a monopoly, is close enough to monopoly.