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by raincole 1090 days ago
If Google doesn't provide a way to say "please don't scrape my site", then it 100% unethical.

We have robots.txt. If Google doesn't respect that, it's unethical. Don't you think so?

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Does twitter's robots.txt forbid scraping? Judging by the fact it shows up in Google I'd assume not.
Maybe it's time for an llm.txt

Not that the people you want to respect that would

The tricky part is it's much more harder to prove that they didn't respect that.