General consensus has become an advertisement.
This will skewer those who cannot adapt and spur those who will maintain.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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>Their activity can closely resemble ordinary browsing, but it happens at machine speed and can be repeated on an enormous scale.
I don't browse at machine speed. Perhaps there's a detection thingy to make. Perhaps not faster than 1 second per page.
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I think it's too early to say that's going to happen
Talk to some of the people that run the small web.
I ran into an issue at work with a few FOSS projects that were blocking our cloud proxy service. I messaged one of their admins on IRC for the scoop...
Turns out it was because too many of their (the cloud proxy) customers were setting out ai agents and scraping their websites, constantly. They can't keep up with the "demand" on their limited budget while also keeping up with free software philosophies.
I read a great article about this the other day...on my work computer. Its too much of a pain in the ass for me to pull up.
Something will have to give. It's a bit ironic, though, that free software is being stifled because it is too free. It's almost like a corollary for the tolerance paradox.
they definitely eat up too much bandwidth NOW, that's undoubtedly a problem, but it's not necessarily gonna keep increasing at the same pace forever. It kind of reminds me of people who were sure we'd over populate the world and not have enough food, or the people who were predicting female olympic sprinters would soon be outrunning jets