Meta's new commercial terms let it scrape business sites starting Oct 30

Angel Reyes · 0 likes

consent by existing, classic

Midnight Rider · 0 likes

robots.txt was a gentlemens agreement and the gentlemen left

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

small publishers have zero leverage here, big ones will just sue or license

Priya Nair · 0 likes

big ones already licensing with OpenAI etc

Midnight Rider · 0 likes

if you run a site, block their crawler user agent today. takes 2 min

Rafael Almeida · 0 likes

they dont always respect it tho

Brave Panda · 0 likes

legal experts say 'might not hold up' which means years of court

Midnight Rider · 0 likes

my blog gets scraped by 40 bots a day, none have sent me a thank you card

Omar Hassan · 0 likes

lmao send them an invoice

Aoife Murphy · 0 likes

honest question: is there any way to actually opt out of this one without closing the account?