Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Or don't do anything. There are plenty of crawlers out there and disallowing won't stop the unethical ones.
Just because some people might break into my house doesn't mean I'll stop locking my doors.
that doesn't lock anything, it's not a security feature.
A house door lock isn’t that much about security either.
It's a deterrent. Which is a pretty apt comparison for robots.txt and user agent blocking.