hey! thanks for that read suggestion that's indeed a pretty funny captcha strat. Yup the links show up if you use the Lynx web browser. As for AI scrapers impersonating googlebot I feel like yes they'd definitely start doing that, unless the risk of getting sued by google is too high? If google could even sue them for doing that?
Not an internet litigation expert but seems like it could be debatable
> As for AI scrapers impersonating googlebot I feel like yes they'd definitely start doing that, unless the risk of getting sued by google is too high?
Google releases the Googlebot IP ranges[0], so you can makes sure that it's the real Googlebot and not just someone else pretending to be one.
i think making the case of "you are acting (sending web requests) while knowingly identifying as another legal entity (and criminally/libelously/etc)" shouldn't be toooo hard
Seems like, but there are tons of things that forge request headers all the time, and I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone getting in legal trouble for it. Now I think most of these are scrapers pretending to be browsers, so it might be different I don’t know.
The reactions to the essay are way more interesting than the essay itself: when "liberals" read it, they immediately get that it's about Donald Trump. But when Trump supporters read it, almost all of them go "yeah good points, but why did you write about Hitler?".
Most of the Trump supporters I showed it to were well-educated and from what I could tell were very much in touch with what is going on in the world. I feel like they just don't want to "see".
