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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

it would need to be advertised as a change and have it as a setting that had to be set yea, just have it default blocking abusive trackers, having Google bot or whatever it's crawler name is as on there, with a toggle to allow it again

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Alternatively, you use the cloudflare money to sue the monopoly to decouple search and all other products, since blocking the AI trawlers shouldn't have any measurable impact in search rankings