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Anything which fills my logs with garbage is unwanted. Your cat could have fallen asleep on the keyboard, I don't care. If you want to use the internet as a giant petri dish, that's on you; but the cat box is elsewhere. I can feed you garbage or block you because your code is shit, or I don't like your style.
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instead of scraping then, they could pay the fsf for a dump of the site or some API access or something, right? why overload the servers normally.
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That's what commoncrawl does.
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common crawl pays the sites they crawl?
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> AI monied interests that fund the FSF

Can you elaborate on who these interests are precisely?

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I tried: https://www.fsf.org/patrons; the last FY listed is 2020.
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I'm not entirely sure how those companies are related to "AI-monied" after clicking on their websites.
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the point is i tried to answer and the page is 6 years out of date....
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The point is that it is presumed that you must've gotten the info somewhere in order to back up your claims. If not this outdated website, where then?
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So you made shit up.
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The patrons page is updated regularly.
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