Sample robots.txt
# .__________________________. # | .___________________. |==| # | | ................. | | | # | | ::[ Dear robot ]: | | | # | | ::::[ be nice ]::…
What is click fraud? | How click bots work
Click fraud fakes clicks target pay-per-click ads, boosting webpage search rankings or artificially inflating the popularity of a post. Click bots are often responsible for click fraud. What is click…
What is a bot? | Bot definition
A bot is a software program that operates on the Internet and performs repetitive tasks. While some bot traffic is from good bots, bad bots can negatively impact a website…
What is rate limiting? | Rate limiting and bots
Rate limiting blocks users, bots, or applications from overusing or abusing a web property. Rate limiting can stop certain kinds of bot attacks. What is rate limiting? Rate limiting is…
What is personal information? | Personal data
Personal information is any information that can identify a person, from someone’s name and address to their device identifier and account number. What is personal information or personal data? Personal…
What is the right to be forgotten?
The right to be forgotten is a legal right defined by the GDPR that allows persons in the EU to request that their data be deleted. What is the right…
What are the Fair Information Practices? | FIPPs
The Fair Information Practice Principles, or FIPPs, are a set of principles for data privacy that many organizations follow today. What are the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs)? Fair Information…
What is the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)?
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives California residents control over the personal data that businesses collect about them. What is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)? The California Consumer…
What is a warrant canary?
A warrant canary is a public statement describing an action that a service provider has not done; the statement is removed if the service provider gets a legal order to…
What is data privacy?
Data privacy is the protection of personal data from those who should not have access to it and the ability of individuals to determine who can access their personal information.…