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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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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.