I don’t think it’s a bad idea but it’s largely dependent on the crawler. I can’t speak for AI based crawlers, but typical scraping targets specific elements on a page or grabbing the whole page and parsing it for what you’re looking for. In both instances, your content is already scrapped and added to the pile. Overall, I have to wonder how long “poisoning the water well” is going to work. You can take me with a grain of salt, though; I work on detecting bots for a living.
time to fill sites code with randomly generated garbage text that humans will not see but crawlers will gobble up?
Accessibility tho
I don’t think it’s a bad idea but it’s largely dependent on the crawler. I can’t speak for AI based crawlers, but typical scraping targets specific elements on a page or grabbing the whole page and parsing it for what you’re looking for. In both instances, your content is already scrapped and added to the pile. Overall, I have to wonder how long “poisoning the water well” is going to work. You can take me with a grain of salt, though; I work on detecting bots for a living.
You should just tell people you’re a blade runner.
I’m a blade runner. 😁
You see a turtle, upended on the hot asphalt. As you pass it, you do not stop to help. Why is that?
also that job title is cool as fuck
Until you realize that you are paying for access fees/network