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I don't see how this will be useful to humans (which it, as I understand, should).

If the site owner wants to publish who the people behind a site are, they can add that to an About or Team page which are also a lot easier to read, especially for non-tech people.

I think this "humans.txt" file will be mostly useful for robots collecting that information and running automated phishing attacks or other bad stuff..



It definitely sounds to me more like a doxxing.txt




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