alt Hacker NewsCounter point:
Companies have made their pages as hard as possible to access with automated tools.
People move to agents, if your site is "invisible" to agentic users (no API, no MCP) people won't find it.
Companies start opening up APIs - which lets non-agent users like us create tooling on top of it _without_ agents.
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The reverse is happening in many places: since agents don't view ads or pay, and do steal content, there's a huge demand to block them. Cloudflare now offer this as a service.
Do you have even an example of this (one should ask for measurable data openness) or are you just making stuff up? Everything around has/is becoming more closed and I have one example: Reddit. It is not impossible to read without an account (account-walled).
Not that useful when large swathes of the population are unemployed, which is where this is all aiming.