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Do people expect that their publically posted data (like hackernews posts for example) are not scooped up by a multitude of bots whether or not it’s mentioned i
by Johnny555 3y ago
Do people expect that their publically posted data (like hackernews posts for example) are not scooped up by a multitude of bots whether or not it’s mentioned in the bots’ privacy policies?
- iamacyborg 3y agoI think there’s a big expectations gap between what people think should happen and what does actually happen. Just because I post on publicly accessible websites does not mean I’m okay with random companies slurping up the information to use for their own purposes.
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- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYeah, truthfully, you guys are right. In the end, anything on the public Internet will get slurped up by a lot of shady, janky players. I've seen whole forums get mirrored onto some place in China for God-knows-what reason. Google is, thankfully, operating in these USA and regulated by US law. And they're being somewhat up-front about their intentions. That's more I can say for 95% of the web crawlers active today.
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