Hi Eric, "Do not Track" didn't succeed in part because there was no legal risk in ignoring it (-> and we end up with awful cookie banners now because of a bad interpretation of the EU GDPR). There were other initiatives more or less related to copyrights and mining before (some are listed here <https://w3c.github.io/tdm-reservation-protocol/docs/initiatives.html>) and they were ignored mostly because not legally binding. Now, at least in the EU (but it seems there are other laws built in other regions), there is a legal "exception or limitation to the rights of rightsholders on lawfully accessible content, for reproductions and extractions for the purposes of TDM', and a legal opt-out for this exception. Even terribly limited and unclear, this is changing how the game is played. Laurent > Le 3 août 2023 à 17:45, Eric Hellman <eric@hellman.net> a écrit : > > I think a better comparison is "do not track" which was soooo successful. Don't forget that we already have lots of "AI" agents on our PCs and in our corporate networks (looking for malicious code, providing autocomplete, smart search, etc. and these agents won't care a damn thing about your protocols. Robots.txt works because it helps spidering bots do their jobs, not because of any "honor" among robots. > > Eric >
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