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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites

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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.

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Why only news sites?

Any bot that ignores robots.txt should be banned.

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