Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website...
by kube-system on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:26PM
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The fact that you can do something that you are not authorized to do doesn't mitigate the fact that you don't have consent to do so. Just because we expect criminals to break the internet without consent doesn't mean everyone is morally absolved to do the same.
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website...
by hedora on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:59PM
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Sites that serve content to Google's crawlers, but then slap up a paywall are spamming users, and unfairly drowning out content producers that are playing by the rules. Last time I checked, they were doing this without Google's consent.
As for the read path, the sites consented to Google indexing their stuff, and Google consents to letting people read the crawler cache. I don't see the issue.