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It doesn't really matter what's ethical and not, or what the site's wish - what matters is what the law says [1]. I don't want my neighbours smoking on the balc

• TheFreim 5y ago
  I care since I try to be ethical in my actions.
  • kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
    Ethics requires reciprocity. These same sites care nothing about being a vector for JS malware.
• judge2020 5y ago
  > I don't want my neighbours smoking on the balcony below me, as I can smell their smoke but the law doesn't allow my building to ban it without consensus. That's simply because you're in multi-family housing, it would be a different story if the neighbors smoked and put up a fan to blow the smoke into your yard/window/etc, and that's probably a more apt comparison to bots that literally fork bomb themselves to crawl your site at 500 requests per second.
• cortesoft 5y ago
  Why can't we talk about ethics? There are a lot of things in this world that are legal, yet I choose not to do them because they are not ethical in my opinion. We are allowed to talk about ethics separate from the law.