[1saadcodes]

The irony is that Google's success was built on crawling and indexing the open web. I understand wanting to protect your product, but once you remove affordable APIs and then object to third parties filling that gap, you're creating demand for the very behavior you're trying to discourage

[ralfd]

I dont get the irony.

Google respects if one doesnt want to get indexed by the crawler:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

[moribunda]

And it has from the start, right?

[inigyou]

Pulling up the ladder behind you is a tale as old as capitalism.