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[โ€“] yqccv9v3li8o@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why should the crawler be blockable? That only brings disadvantages for a search engine. There is no sensible reason to allow Google but exclude other search engines.

[โ€“] yqccv9v3li8o@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I agree that Brave is problematic and most of the criticisms are also legitimate. But the point about the crawlers is not really a problem. If you respect the wish of websites to be indexed exclusively by Google, you support Google's monopoly and prevent alternative search engines from having similarly good results.