Back in 2024, Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, coined the term "Google Zero," which he defined as "that moment when Google Search simply stops sending traffic outside of its search engine to third-party websites." It increasingly feels as if that moment has arrived, an…
  • slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 month ago

    Or better yet, don’t block them but rather poison their data.

    Besser wäre es, den Crawlern Müll-Daten zuzuspielen, die realiatisch aussehen aber die Datenbanken vergiften. Sonst finden die nur einen Weg um die Sperren herum

    • dubak@feddit.orgOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      From the linked article:

      Time, meanwhile, is trying to monetize the bots by using what the Journal calls “a sort of Trojan horse approach — creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.” The idea is that AI chatbots might then reference those ads when responding to user queries without knowing they are ads, like some sort of insidious sponsored content.