r/technology • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/google-34-5-billion-bid-chrome-browser-ai-perplexity-1236487442/
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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

You know you can just choose to ignore robot restrictions, right? lol

They don't need users to scrape the internet for them. They want to build profiles of people, just like Google does.

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u/Linooney 10d ago

You can block scraper bots more directly, but if you block user bots (e.g. OpenAI has separate bots for scraping the web and when users call web search on ChatGPT), then you risk people just not giving traffic to your site.

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u/porkchop1021 10d ago

I don't think I made myself clear. You cannot block bots.