Fighting Bots
by Manu MorealeManu talks about the ongoing issues with AI scraping the web and what are options are, as site owners, to prevent it.
I read this post during my lunch break and found myself nodding along with what Manu had wrote.
Like Manu, I had read Nicolas' post about removing his blog from Google and I came away feeling that doing something so drastic is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Manu gives a couple of alternative solutions in his post. He says:
I guess there are only two options left:
- Accept the fact that some dickheads will do whatever they want because that’s just the world we live in
- Make everything private and only allow actual human beings access to our content
I think he's right. They're the only options I can think of too, and having considered my options over the last few weeks, I think I'm gonna go with option 1.
Is it ideal? Nope. But in lieu of a better solution, I'm just gonna continue doing my thing without worrying about it too much. Unfortunately there's dickheads in all walks of life, including the Internet.