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Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate betwe
by qazxcvbnmlp 2y ago
Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate between bot and not and patching them.
To truly say “I trust real browsers” requires a signal of integrity of the user and browser such as cryptographic device attestation of the browser. .. which has to be centrally verified. Which is also not great.
- coldpie 2y ago> Everything on this can be programmatically simulated by a bot with bad intentions. It will be a cat and mouse game of finding behaviors that differentiate between bot and not and patching them. Forcing Facebook & Co to play the adversary role still seems like an improvement over the current situation. They're clearly operating illegitimately if they start spoofing real user agents to get around bot blocking capabilities.
- Terr_ 2y agoI'm imagining a quixotic terms of service, where "by continuing" any bot access grants the site-owner a perpetual and irrevocable license to use and relicense all data, works, or other products resulting from any use of the crawled content, including but not limited to cases where that content was used in a statistical text generative model.