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		msgodel 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to... Robots don't exist for their own sake, at the end of the day they are user agents for some group of humans. Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages.

imilk 10 months ago [–]

> Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages.

More like people don't want to lose money because a 3rd party stole all of their content, and then repurposed it to show people before they visit their website.

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