wrote up how i’m blocking “artificial intelligence” bots from accessing my website, with some copy-and-paste code that should (🤞🏻) stay up-to-date whenever i update my blocklist https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/blockin-bots/
@beep This is a great thread! Will most definitely be taking advantage of some of the information that's contained here, not that my personal site has content worth stealing. 🤣
@beep As other commentators pointed out it is baffling that TomHardware site with aforementioned article is absolutely riddled with ads and horrible to read without any distractions. Site’s performance and UX be damned.
@beep there's a big old cloud of irony over this of course - but - I'm glad such a big famous old and also bloaty website is running a story like this. More awareness, yes yes.
> "As the testing above shows, some of the most brutally intensive websites include ... and basically every major social media platform."
I take exception to that. Mastodon loads pretty damn quickly, and it's the only social media site _I_ use daily.
But yes, that article is pretty accurate, and most large players will respond "just use our mobile app instead" (with the unspoken part being 'so we can track and sell literally everything you do, visit, and say')
@beep I’ve been using https://sindresorhus.com/velja for opening links in specific apps/browsers and one of its glorious features is that it’ll strip tracking parameters from all opened/copied links.
I’ll have more to say about it soon, but for now I’ll say this:
I wrote this little book for you, for me, for all of us. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever written, and I’m really very proud of it. And I hope it’s helpful to you.
Gregory's Server
(via https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/, which was via @Mer__edith)
@beep Amen
@beep @blogdiva
Good for them 👏