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Put your content behind authentication if you don’t want it to be requested by just anyone.

• kelnos 1y ago
  But I do want my content accessible to "just anyone", as long as they are humans. I don't want it accessible to bots. You are free to say "well, there is no mechanism to do that", and I would agree with you. That's the problem!
  • 1gn15 1y ago
    What the hell? That is incredibly discriminatory. Fuck off. I support those that counter those discriminatory mechanisms.
    • Anamon 1y ago
      Discriminatory against bots? That doesn't even make any sense.
      • bigbuppo 1y ago
        They probably have stock options.
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  • 9rx 1y ago
    > as long as they are humans. I don't want it accessible to bots. A curious position. There isn't a secondary species using the internet. There is only humans. Unless you foresee some kind of alien invasion or earthworm uprising, nothing other than humans will ever access your content. Rejecting the tools humans use to bridge their biological gaps is rather nonsensical. > You are free to say "well, there is no mechanism to do that", and I would agree with you. That's the problem! I suppose it would be pretty neat if humans were born with some kind of internet-like telepathy ability, but lacking that mechanism isn't any kind of real problem. Humans are well adept at using tools and have successfully used tools for millennia. The internet itself is a tool! Which, like before, makes rejecting the human use of tools nonsensical.
  • nkrisc 1y ago
    Even abusive crawlers and scrapers are acting as agents of real humans, just as your browser is acting as your agent. I don't even know how you could reliably draw a reasonable line in the sand between the two without putting some group of people on the wrong side of the line. I suppose the ultimate solution would be browsers and operating systems and hardware manufacturers co-operating to implement some system that somehow cryptographically signs HTTP requests which attests that it was triggered by an actual, physical interaction with a computing device by a human. Though you don't have to think for very long to come up with all kinds of collateral damage that would cause and how bad actors could circumvent it anyway. All in all, this whole issue seems more like a legal problem than a technical one.
    • bigbuppo 1y ago
      Or the AI people could just stop being abusive jerks. That's an even easier solution.
      • 9rx 1y ago
        While that is probably good advice in general, the earlier commenter wanted even the abusive jerks to have access to his content. He just doesn't want tools humans use to access content to be used in association with his content. What he failed to realize is that if you eliminate the tools, the human cannot access the content anyway. They don't have the proper biological interfaces. Had he realized that, he'd have come to notice that simply turning off his server fully satisfies the constraints.
      • nkrisc 1y ago
        That would be easier. Too bad it won't ever happen.