Proposal: HTML Attribute to state non-consent when scraping for training datasets about html HOT 1 CLOSED

Unfortunately the HTML standard has no jurisdiction or ability to enforce anything onto companies that scrape web documents. Adding such an attribute without any level of enforcement would likely result in no real change, and may harm forward progress (as historical precedent we could look at DNT).

In addition, I think this is the wrong venue. HTML prescribes how a page behaves and how the browser should consume and present it, but it does little around providing structured data. You might find that the schema.org working group would be a better venue for this sort of work. Alternatively leveraging robots.txt may be a tool that works today.

Just to clarify, I'm going to close this issue due to the above reasons, but that does not constitute as an opinion against the above idea or desire. I encourage you to explore this further in other standards venues. Best of luck!

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