Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
This is a great move from Cloudflare. I may start using their service.
I hope to make something that could only exist because I made it. Something that is the one thing that it is. Not an average sentence. Not a visual approximation of other people’s work. Not a stolen concept that boils lakes and uses more electricity than anything in my household.
This is a great move from Cloudflare. I may start using their service.
There was life before Google search. There will be life after Google search.
Google is not a huge source of traffic and visibility. I get most of my visits from RSS readers, other people’s links including fellow bloggers, or websites like Hacker News. It’s hard to tell at this point since I don’t track anything, but that’s an educated guess.
Removing my website from Google would have very little impact, so I was wondering if I should just do it.
AI is steeped in marketing drivel, built upon theft, and intent on replacing our creative output with a depressingly shallow imitation.
While we’re playing whack-a-mole, let’s poison these rodents.
Blocking the bots is step one.
A web by humans, for humans.
Pest control for your website.
You have the power, not Google.
From a browser bug this morning, back to the birth of hypertext in 1945, with a look forward to a possible future for web browsers.
“I wish to God these hot takes had been reckoned by steam!”