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Even some non-profit ignore it now, Internet Archive stopped respecting it years ago: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-do

• SR2Z 2y ago
  IA actually has technical and moral reasons to ignore robots.txt. Namely, they want to circumvent this stuff because their goal is to archive EVERYTHING.
  • amarcheschi 2y ago
    I also don't think they hit servers repeatedly so much
  • prinny_ 2y ago
    Isn’t this a weak argument? OpenAI could also say their goal is to learn everything, feed it to AI, advance humanity etc etc.
    • compootr 2y ago
      OAI is using others' work to resell it in models. IA uses it to presrrve the history of the web there is a case to be made about the value of the traffic you'll get from oai search though...
      • deleted 2y ago
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    • SR2Z 2y ago
      It does depend a lot on how you feel about IA's integrity :P
• AnonC 2y ago
  As I recall, this is outdated information. Internet Archive does respect robots.txt and will remove a site from its archive based on robots.txt. I have done this a few years after your linked blog post to get an inconsequential site removed from archive.org.
  • dredmorbius 2y ago
    The most recent notice IA have blogged was in 2017, and there's no indication that the service has reversed course on robots.txt since. <https://blog.archive.org/?s=robots.txt https://blog.archive.org/?s=robots.txt>