aeveltstra, 27 days ago

@berkes This is so badly needed! So many companies have websites that fail to explain in simple terms what the company does!

berkes, 27 days ago

second most common type of summary is:

"The company provides Cookies for a better experience. It offers visitors extensive tooling to control how their data is processed"

berkes, 27 days ago

What's actually happening?

Their HTML is so bad that anything that's not a full blown browser simply cannot parse it.

Or, in other words: their website is crap, inaccessible, invalid and bloated.

And coincidentally therefore unfriendly towards AI, bots and quite probably most humans that don't have the most powerful machines with modern browsers and 100% eyesight and such.

railmeat, 27 days ago

@berkes Being unfriendly towards AI might be a feature now that people have recognized the extent of AI's copyright violations.

Unplanned features FTW.

strypey, 25 days ago

@railmeat
> Being unfriendly towards AI might be a feature now that people have recognized the extent of AI's copyright violations

@pluralistic wrote a good piece about the copywar battle over scraping;

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/25/deep-scrape/

Strikes me as a moral panic driven by people with deep pockets and vested interests in extending copyright scope and enforcement at every opportunity.

@berkes