• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    28 days ago

    Functionally, no. It’s like the no tracker request in browsers - only the stupid ones would honor that.

      • queerdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        28 days ago

        Private social media is your best bet, but if you don’t want your content scraped, the only surefire way is not to post it online. But realistically it’s a risk vs reward scenario, not a black and white one. There are places you could post content and have it be less likely to be scraped, but once it’s out there there’s always the chance.

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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            28 days ago

            I mean…

            You are looking at this the wrong way. If you post stuff on the open web, it’s out there. It’s been scraped for years, and will get scraped. The Fediverse is as low profile a place as any, but its no different.

            If you don’t like that, keep it in private chats, like Signal or text chains or whatever.

            This is like mod makers who release Apache/MIT licensed stuff, but get frustrated over what others do with their mods. That’s what releasing content into public means: others may do stuff with it you don’t like, and you have to live with it, unfortunately. And honestly, I think it’d be tragic if they didn’t publish mods over that fear.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    For the ones they own or have a contract with, probably. However, there are two problems with that.

    1. It will do fuck all for the AI models which are just scraping the internet and which have no contractual agreements with the blog (e.g. all the big ones).
    2. It’s a fixing a problem the blog hosting platform created. They likely have a data sharing agreement with some organizations to make the scraping easy for those organizations (e.g. direct content database access). So, they are like the mob, offering you “protection” so long as you pay them not to break your shit.