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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
(news.bgov.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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How will they enforce it? Pretty please?
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"This website or search engine is not designed for the state of new york" I assume is going to be a disclaimer we will be seeing soon.
Soooo, that means archive.is too. This fucking sucks.
I hope those tools are exempt because, just like a browser, they respond only to specific commands issued by a human user. They don't "crawl" pages in the way we describe bots that jump from page to page.
Isn’t there something like 340 news sites that actively block them already?
Thanks, that becomes the cost of doing business. Harumph.
If said companies dont fall under new York jurisdiction, what happens then?