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Google accused of aggressive scraping of Peertube instances

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Google appears to be aggressively scraping content from a Peertube instance, as indicated by extensive logs showing traffic from Google IP addresses. The user speculates this activity might be related to AI training or other unspecified purposes. AI

IMPACT Potential implications for content creators and data privacy regarding AI training data.

RANK_REASON User speculation about Google's activity based on log data.

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Google accused of aggressive scraping of Peertube instances

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Looks like # google is scraping my # peertube instance pretty hard these days. Plenty of cases in the logs where an IP that resolves to something.googleusercont

    Looks like # google is scraping my # peertube instance pretty hard these days. Plenty of cases in the logs where an IP that resolves to something.googleusercontent.com literally goes through everything that's publicly visible. I wonder if it's for # AI training or some other kind…

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