Smarter people than me are coming up with ways to protect content through sabotage: hidden pixels in images; hidden words on web pages. I’d like to implement this on my own website. If anyone has some suggestions for ways to do this, I’m all ears.
If enough people do this we’ll probably end up in an arms race with the bots. It’ll be like reverse SEO. Instead of trying to trick crawlers into liking us, let’s collectively kill ’em.
Source: The machine stops by Jeremy Keith
I am assuming that this is why some spaces, such as ABC News, stopped publishing their content through RSS? We certainly are in strange times.