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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by Stefan-H on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:36AM (#46887126)
Can you elaborate on the logic that makes preventing scrapers (note, you didn't mention actually hindering accessibility technologies) customer antagonistic?
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Re:New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer by ssl-3 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:45AM (#46887230)
When a product doesn't show up at all using the [potential] customer's chosen tools (whether a search engine like Google, or an LLM like ChatGPT), then that product is invisible.

An invisible product is one that may as well not exist. When a person can't find it, then they also can't purchase it.

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