Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@midwest.socialtechnology@beehaw.org
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square200fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@midwest.socialtechnology@beehaw.org
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoExcept that it’d also catch out people who use accessibility devices might see the link anyways, or use the keyboard to navigate a site instead of a mouse.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·9 months agoi don’t know, maybe there’s a canvas trick. i’m not a webdev so i am a bit out of my depth and mostly guessing and remembering 20-year-old technology
Except that it’d also catch out people who use accessibility devices might see the link anyways, or use the keyboard to navigate a site instead of a mouse.
i don’t know, maybe there’s a canvas trick. i’m not a webdev so i am a bit out of my depth and mostly guessing and remembering 20-year-old technology