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the most annoying thing about new laptops is how difficult is to find replacement batteries that can be trusted and work well. The battery situation is a downgrade compared to the previous pluggable ones.

data as a business, now everyone needs good data to plug it into their ai.

Interesting how this site talks about the bad experience using google and while I scroll through it I'm shown more than 10 advertisements.

in the perfect world we would have a very high trust internet in which everyone follows the rules, checks robots.txt, rate limits, etc. But we don't live in such a world. Getting angry at these ai bots is useless. People should start considering what and how they host their data. If you're worried about bandwidth costs you have many alternatives to host your data for free or at a very little cost. i.e: github/gitlab/cloudflare.

If you're worried about your data getting scraped and used then maybe you can consider putting it behind a login or do some proof of work/soft captcha. Yeah, this isn't perfect but it will keep most dumb bots away.

Some people are hosting their sites like we're still in 1995 and times have changed.

that's a good point, in search we have google as a monopoly and since a big percentage of sites only want to be crawled by them it reinforces the monopoly. So a lot of people complain about bots not following robots.txt but if you follow them to the letter it's impossible to make anything useful. Also AFAIK robots.txt doesn't have any legal standing

Wait until legitimate users start getting their fake responses. Who is willing to trust this company to serve random data?

shouldn't QUIC be supported at the operating system level similar to TCP? that way it could get adopted much easily in different languages

in Argentina some people call facebook marketplace the "deep web", not sure if it has that reputation in other countries. Lots of stolen things being sold and also scams

this kind of surveillance is childish and a bit creepy too

They still have 62% pass rate in WPT so my guess is that there's still a lot to do to make it usable as a browser.

amazing!

Does anyone know about people doing similar reverse engineering but for javascript code in websites?

I'm using chrome on linux and noticed that this year cloudflare is very agressive in showing the "Verify you are a human" box. Now a lot of sites that use cloudflare show it and once you solve the challenge it shows it again after 30 minutes!

What are you protecting cloudflare?

Also they show those captchas when going to robots.txt... unbelievable.