Message from Alan K
Hi all,
I've temporarily (as of 4 September 2024) locked access to all of my galleries because Statcounter shows that Facebook bots have been pillaging them relentlessly for the last few days. Knowing the ethics of the Meta group (they don't have any that I am aware of), I strongly suspect that this is NOT for benevolent purposes and is, I suspect, more likely to be for image theft to train their AI models without consent. (Facebook isn't a search engine; why would it need to be crawling through a photo sharing site?) I'm therefore locking my galleries away for a few days until their bots give up and go away.
Edit 6 September: I unlocked them a couple of hours back but if I start getting swarmed by 'bots I'll lock them again. I've also raised something in the Feature Requests forum ( https://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=49462 ) asking if Facebook-sourced visits can be blocked.
And as soon as I took it off this morning it started getting pillaged again.
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