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The whole point of publication is so that humans can read it. Robots not so much, especially if they're not paying customers. This is the distinction between ho
by pjc50 1y ago
The whole point of publication is so that humans can read it. Robots not so much, especially if they're not paying customers. This is the distinction between how the web works technically and how it works socioeconomically.
This is the next iteration of things like the news snippet case. Publishers are not happy that Google crawls their content (at their expense) and then republishes it on their own site, while serving ads around it and getting user data, without cutting in the publisher who originally made it. And, for what little it's worth, owns the copyright.
- msgodel 1y agoRobots don't exist for their own sake, at the end of the day they are user agents for some group of humans. Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages.
- imilk 1y ago> Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages. More like people don't want to lose money because a 3rd party stole all of their content, and then repurposed it to show people before they visit their website.
- CaptainFever 1y agoWeb 3.0 is all about machine-readability: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web (Not to be confused with Web3.)