Is Compose/WASM subject to web scrapers :thinking_...
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Is Compose/WASM subject to web scrapers 🤔
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what do you mean by "still"? i doubt web scrappers can read off canvas
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@Alex Styl Thanks for pointing out that word "still". I removed it to make the question clearer. But yes, I was asking about web scrapers scraping off the canvas. I would love for that to not be possible.
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afaik it is not possible rn. maybe in the future it will be. why are you concerned about it?
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Yeah, I am personally not a fan of my website content being used for AI things. I am also not interested in having it be search engine optimized.
I guess you could use OCR to figure out what's going on with it. Or maybe even screen shot analysis.
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you can tell the ai bots not to
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Lol, sure
a
similar to the robots.txt there's an ai version
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And you expect me to believe that matters?
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a
im only here to tell you what's available. if you want you can manually check who is visiting your website and kick them out
it all goes down to how much effort you want to spend on this
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Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your advice and I am not trying to come off negatively. On the other hand I am a bit too cynical to believe a company will respect my rights.
a
what kind of app are you building?
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Just a simple portfolio website/blog. Nothing that has any content I am not comfortable sharing. And I know that makes the idea of it being scraped sound benign. But it's the principal of the thing.
I was just curious and didn't plan on putting forth any prevention effort.
@Alex Styl I just signed up for your android jobs website! Cool stuff! Can I ask you what API you use to find the jobs?
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Can I ask you what API you use to find the jobs?
I don't use an API