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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 · 2 days 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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The only bots I hope gets exempt are Internet Archive bots. Only bots I support.
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  The article is about “stealth bots” that don’t identify themselves as such. The Internet Archive bots have always been clearly identifiable.

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