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i somewhat agree; people volunteer it when posting anything online. but they also volunteer their advertising id on their phones (even if they dont know it) - just as they dont know (and dont care) they are the product when on websites like facebook

i feel the 'antibot' stuff is more related to the adtech industry vs site-scrapers - remember getting a dedicated server and having friends click on links just to pay for it? Geocities and all these free websites, the biggest costs were bandwidth and storage (not that its not now)

since the AI Boom, there's just more hype over people wanting 'credit' (or money) for something they posted on a forum X-units of time ago.

its called the World Wide Web for a reason.. keep it open, even if it is to 'a bot' - never know when somebody's 'bot software' is reading your webpage for somebody who has some disadvantage and needs assistance