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What if I’m a web alerts company? I crawl your content but my clients are all end users who actually see your content at your site.

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• hk__2 2mo ago
  Fetch my RSS then.
  • veeti 2mo ago
    Cloudflare and other WAF blocking is increasingly an issue with RSS feeds, especially if you use a centralized reader.
  • elorant 2mo ago
    The vast majority of news sites don't have an RSS. They don't even have a robots.txt.
• pessimizer 2mo ago
  Then you are a uninvited bot that crawls my content in order to send alarms to people to tell them to visit my site? This is a "what if it's for your own good?" argument. What if I break into your house to clean your toilets? Although amusingly, if you're a "web alerts company" that I didn't contract and sends out alerts in batches on your own schedule, you will probably send a ton of your customers to my site at the same time and slashdot me off of the web entirely.
  • elorant 2mo ago
    No, I won't send a ton, I'll send a few dozens to a few hundreds at most because not everyone is interested in the same things. And they'll visit at their own timeline. If your site can't service a few dozen requests simultaneously then you probably aren't a news site in the first place so the whole argument is moot.