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2025-07-02 04:34 UTC
@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - As for bad faith, perhaps the clearest evidence of bad faith by IA was its public promise to honor "robots.txt", when those who monitored traffic could tell that they *never* honored it, then claiming they thought people with robots.txt *specifically directed to exclude IA* didn't really mean to exclude IA, then dropping it entirely without notice, only a "by the way" buried mention after the fact.
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@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social 2025-07-02 04:40
@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - Also, IA refusal to allow authors to add links to their catalog to URLs where authorized versions can be found, and insistence on steering visitors only to their (inferior) bootleg copies, disserves both readers and writers. Not sure if it's exactly "bad faith", but it's deliberate (yes, we've asked, and been ignored) and inexcusable