Alecs Ștefănescu on Nostr: I like useful things even more when they are open-source, maintained publicly and ...
I like useful things even more when they are open-source, maintained publicly and transparent in the decision-making process.
Case in point, Cloudflare offers its customers, even for the free tier, a way to block AI bots from scraping content even when they don't obey robots.txt. https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click
Great feature, except it's closed-source and opaquely built. Hypothetically, Cloudflare could accept money to allow certain bots through (not saying this has happened or will happen).
Case in point, Cloudflare offers its customers, even for the free tier, a way to block AI bots from scraping content even when they don't obey robots.txt. https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click
Great feature, except it's closed-source and opaquely built. Hypothetically, Cloudflare could accept money to allow certain bots through (not saying this has happened or will happen).