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minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAre they though?
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI don’t know of any law that says that they can’t.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoHow can they do that, logistically? Like I realize there’s a flag they can raise that asks not to be indexed but that’s not legally binding.
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI guess they can make it hard to index by scraping by rate limiting or requiring login to view content etc and only provide Google the api to bypass the restrictions There’s probably a lot of ways to do it
I guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it
Are they though?
I don’t know of any law that says that they can’t.
How can they do that, logistically?
Like I realize there’s a flag they can raise that asks not to be indexed but that’s not legally binding.
I guess they can make it hard to index by scraping by rate limiting or requiring login to view content etc and only provide Google the api to bypass the restrictions
There’s probably a lot of ways to do it