Well, the internet could know the balance of your bank account at that boutique credit union, or which sex toys you’ve been looking at buying.
We do web hosting for businesses. We are careful to identify bots because we don’t want personalized recommendations in search engines, and don’t want PII showing up. Not that we put a lot of that in the site, but think about a Home Depot or a Best Buy situation. If you’re a human near the Minneapolis store, you want availability for that store, not the Detroit one. But corporate wants a bot to know that this microwave is something you in theory carry, but might have to ship from a warehouse. If Home Depot wants that, and our customers also want that, then probably a lot of businesses feel the same.
We do web hosting for businesses. We are careful to identify bots because we don’t want personalized recommendations in search engines, and don’t want PII showing up. Not that we put a lot of that in the site, but think about a Home Depot or a Best Buy situation. If you’re a human near the Minneapolis store, you want availability for that store, not the Detroit one. But corporate wants a bot to know that this microwave is something you in theory carry, but might have to ship from a warehouse. If Home Depot wants that, and our customers also want that, then probably a lot of businesses feel the same.