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Lately, there has been a proliferation of companies playing the “good guy” card, giving us almost all the information about their sites, DNS servers, email servers, and the online services they host.
This is nothing new…companies have been doing this for decades, except for paid services that you request. The current trend is that basically anyone can do that on my system, and they're willing to sell the data they collect about me to anyone, including me, without permission or consent. This includes data collected and/or Data that you did not have the right to compile. Match…
“Just block that crawler”? Some companies advise this, but not only do publishers need to automate it themselves, but all companies provide a list of source IP addresses or identify source IP addresses. It does not mean. Some companies use multiple different crawler domain names for commercial products or use cloud providers such as Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure. So you can't just block access to your company's network without serious consequences. We may also change information about ourselves. There are no warnings and often their own listings are not updated. Additionally, there are indirect costs such as compute costs, network costs, development costs, and review cycle costs. It's a cat and mouse game, and it's getting very boring.
With concerns and ethical questions being raised about AI collecting and learning from copyrighted works, how are these security companies different from AI? And how can this be legally prevented?
Do you want to block crawlers? Do you want to change the terms of service? What is the best solution… Share your own thoughts and suggestions in the comments.
How can I stop security companies from collecting my data?