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Weird take. The store doesn't owe your personal shippers anything.
by recursive 1y ago
Weird take. The store doesn't owe your personal shippers anything.
- the_real_cher 1y agoIn the same token the personal shoppers don't owe the store anything either.
- eddythompson80 1y agoSurely they owe them money for the goods and service, no? I thought that's how stores worked.
- the_real_cher 1y agoContext friend. This article and entire comments sections is about questionable web page access. Context.
- eddythompson80 1y agoYou're replying in a store metaphor thread though. Context matters.
- recursive 1y agoThen they can't complain if they're barred entry.
- the_real_cher 1y agohttp is neutral. it's up to the client to ignore robots.txt You can block IP's at the host level but there's pretty easy ways around that with proxy networks.
- eddythompson80 1y ago> http is neutral. Who misled you with that statement?
- the_real_cher 1y agoHttp doesnt have emotions or thought last time I checked.
- eddythompson80 1y agoIt seems that a 403 makes you sad though.
- the_real_cher 1y agoiproyal.com makes me smile again
- eddythompson80 1y agoAnd Cloudflare makes you cry. See, it's not neutral. Glad you learned something today. The more one learns everyday, the less stupid you become.
- drdaeman 1y agoIETF?
- drdaeman 1y agoThat's fair, but if there's enough of supply and demand for this to get traction (and online shopping is bug, and autonomous agents are sort of trending), this conflict of interest paired with a no-compromise "we don't own you anything" attitude is bound to escalate in an arms race. And YMMV but I don't like where that race may possibly end. If store businesses at least partially relies on obscurity of information that can be solved through automated means (e.g. storefronts tend to push visitors towards products they don't want, and buyer agents are fighting that and looking for something buyers instructed them) just playing this cat and mouse game of blocking agents, finding workarounds, and repeating the cycle is only creating perverse technological contraptions that neither party is really interested in - but both are circumstantially forced to invest into.