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hownowbrowncow OP ,

solve anything.

As I say, honourable UAs will honour robots.txt and its protocol, this proposal is an extension of that.

Google have been proposing similar. Perhaps presumably for different reasons: …google.com/…/public_comment_thought_starters_oct…

There is no accountability.

On small scales perhaps not, but as said this has always been the case with scraping.

Unless some law is enacted,

robots.txt protocols has never been law but has been honoured so it’s worth hanging on to. It’s still the defintion of ‘good bots’ vs ‘bad bots’ on one level and that’s about as good as site owners have vs whack-a-mole with UA-IP variations.

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