Andy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down114cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1external-linkAI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txtwww.theverge.comAndy Reid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square199fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarePretzilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoJust thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoPerhaps some web extensions already do this and phone home about it.
minus-squareSpotlight7573@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWhile there are some extensions that do this, last I saw Google didn’t use Chrome for populating Search: https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chrome-to-discover-new-urls-for-crawling/
Just thought of a nasty hack the browser makers (or hackers) could use to scrape unlisted sites - by surreptitiously logging user browser history for a crawl list
Perhaps some web extensions already do this and phone home about it.
While there are some extensions that do this, last I saw Google didn’t use Chrome for populating Search:
https://blogs.perficient.com/2017/03/15/does-google-use-chrome-to-discover-new-urls-for-crawling/