Saturday, October 17, 2026
Meta says crawl terms are for ads, not model training
On Oct. 17, 2026 Meta told The Verge it removed pending commercial-terms language that said the company may use crawled website content to train Meta products. Spokesperson Daniel Roberts said the consolidated crawling terms apply only to ads and business products, do not change how Meta uses web crawlers, and do not override robots.txt. The terms are still set to take effect on Oct. 30, 2026. This run could not load Meta's terms page.
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