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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites

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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

New York is set to become the first state to impose guardrails on “stealth crawlers,” or unauthorized software that trawls news sources to scrape content.

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Isn’t there something like 340 news sites that actively block them already?

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