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User deploys Anubis to block AI scrapers ignoring robots.txt

A Mastodon user expressed frustration with AI scrapers that disregard robots.txt, leading them to implement Anubis to protect their websites. The user believes AI companies have broken a "moral contract" by not respecting these directives, justifying defensive measures. AI

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · rotnroll666 ·

    Obviously, there's an innuendo towards # jqwik in the above post. Think about it: I need to protect all my sites that don't just deliver plain HTTP files with #

    Obviously, there's an innuendo towards # jqwik in the above post. Think about it: I need to protect all my sites that don't just deliver plain HTTP files with # Anubis these days. Non of the fucking # AI scrapers obeys robots.txt (the equivalent of "pretty please"). Anubis is rea…