The Web already has a way for sites to opt-out of automated crawling: the robots.txt file. This makes perfect sense – which is why it will likely never happen. Source: Considerations for AI Opt-Out
Category: Annoyances
The Last Straw
I love the privacy of the Brave browser but a couple of things made me decide to switch back to Firefox: More and more sites seem to be dropping support for Brave (as shown above). This is probably because they cannot track you as effectively. Brave is based on Chromium which Google controls. Google is…
The web continues to devolve
I’ve noticed a trend in service provides trying to dictate which browsers their customers should use. I love Brave and am seeing more and more sites trying to block its use (perhaps because of the privacy it provides to its users?).
Some Open Source Projects Are Only Useful If Your Time Has No Value
As much as I love open source projects, I will no longer be using Known as my blog engine. Known was a fantastic tool for learning about the IndieWeb, but it was very buggy (especially the plugins). Today I tried to upgrade to the latest version and thanks to some undocumented dependencies my entire site…