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kouhai, resolver of merges

@rcombs from my earlier post:

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the problems this tries to solve is hard! unfortunately, some things simply should not be built, regardless of how much easier it makes things for Google

and consider this: Google maintains one of the world’s biggest web scrapers. because Google is dominant in search, people will allowlist the Google scraper attestation (if it exists) no matter what. guess what individual users won’t be able to do?

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO

@kouhai individual users, and also new competing search engines!

LisPi

@rcombs @kouhai In a world with functional #antitrust and anti-competitive practices regulation, making this would be corporate suicide.

octesian

@kouhai @rcombs Also only "well-behaved" web scrapers respect a block list. It's easy for one to program a scraper that does not.

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