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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s funny how much shit just breaks (but not really) with Noscript and other whitelist safety features enabled.
It’s wild. If it doesn’t load, I say fuck it and find another site.