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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Except that it'd also catch out people who use accessibility devices might see the link anyways, or use the keyboard to navigate a site instead of a mouse.
i don't know, maybe there's a canvas trick. i'm not a webdev so i am a bit out of my depth and mostly guessing and remembering 20-year-old technology