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Especially, Facebook is not supposed to intelligently crawl websites but to just proxy images. That's an easy one.
by Artemis2 13y ago
Especially, Facebook is not supposed to intelligently crawl websites but to just proxy images. That's an easy one.
- joosters 13y agoYes, it should intelligently proxy images.
- Terr_ 13y agoAh, but intelligently for whom? Benefits to Facebook might outweigh intangibles like "being nice" to the people and places they are indirectly making money off of.
- dspillett 13y agoI think in this intance we've passsed the line between "not being nice" and "being a dick", or in this case being an accessory to a dickish move. If the issue is used to DoS a site Zuckerberg cares about, not that I would encourage such action as it would in itself be a dick move, I'm sure some form of rate limiting will be implemented in short order...