Opting Out of TurnItIn

The web service TurnItIn is a "plagiarism detector". Lots of universities use it to assess whether their students are copy-n-pasting content which they haven't written.

I'm not a big fan of it.  First, I'll explain how to opt-out your websites. Then I'll explain why I don't like the service.

Block Their Robot

TurnItIn scans the web and records everything on your websit

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/opting-out-of-turnitin/

#/etc/ #academia #msc #turnitin

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Hi Terence, thank you for posting this, I’d never heard about it! Your blog entry is from 2021, but I guess they’re still around and just probably worse?