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Comment on Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

mke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

We would be happy to connect with your technical team to help them make sure your paywalled content isn’t served to people using Poe.

What a joke, Quora needs to reevaluate whose responsibility that is.

Basic reasoning time: was it an accident?

If not, then it was at least immoral.
If so, then it was incompetence.

What a surprise, both possibilities seem to point towards the project being shit.

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jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
putting paywalled content onto the internet, where you let bots look at it but try to prevent humans from being able to see it, is plain evil.

NYT lied to get us into Iraq, and countless other times, they are pure evil

NYT did not contribute to the building of the internet in any way. but they see it as their god given right to take the hard work of the nerds they hate and use to make millions of dollars for themselves, while giving nothing back

nobody here seems to understand the difference between a USER AGENT and a BOT. If i ask my web browser to fetch me a web page, that browser is my user agent. of course it does not respect the robots policy. same thing if i ask an LLM to fetch a page for me. that LLM is my user agent, not a bot in this case. NYT is mad because they let all bots in, they want to be indexed after all. of course here again we see where NYT wants the benefit of internet resources like being in the search index, but they want to give nothing back and make the actual human people suffer by degrading their experience on the web
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- SaltySalamander@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I'm sure you're one of the ones that will complain when all journalism is replaced by AI, while lacking the basic understanding of why that had to happen.
  
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