Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1535arrow-down16
arrow-up1529arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squaretee9000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·9 hours agoDo you even know what robots.txt is?
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 hours agothe scraper bots surely don’t
minus-squaretee9000@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoAnd nobody in this scenario has done anything illegal.
minus-squareeskimofry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoIf you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish… then people will judge you to be an asshole. Edit: Not you personally.
Do you even know what robots.txt is?
the scraper bots surely don’t
And nobody in this scenario has done anything illegal.
If you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish… then people will judge you to be an asshole.
Edit: Not you personally.