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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you think either of those companies pays attention to robots.txt? its not legally binding or anythjng

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    At the executive level, no I don't think they care or pay attention, but considering both have said "here's how to block our crawler," I do hope that that some mistreated developer did actually program a check in to the crawler. I still think it's worth doing, even though I don't fully trust them.

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