OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others are positioning AI agents as personal assistants that can perform a range of tasks online. But the web is becoming increasingly unfriendly toward agents, undermining their usefulness.

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[–] 72 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The web also becomes increasingly unfriendly to humans. One out of every three websites greets me with anti-bot protection from Cloudflare, Anubis, or goaway.

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  • [–] [S] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    The anti-bot thing is just an excuse. CloudFlare's ultimate goal is to get you to run their surveillance software on your browser to let you through.

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