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What we need is a net neutrality doctrine on the server side. Bandwidth is hardly scarce outside of AWS's business model. Ban the crawler user-agent dominance by the big search engine players. "Good behaviour" should be enforced via rate limiting that equally applies to all crawlers, without exemption for certain big players.





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