Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content. The content delivery network and the web host on Tuesday announced that they would …
I suppose this is to do with why I now have to verify via Cloudflare on logging in to el Reg and as Cloudflare doesn't support my usual browser that's a pain. What makes this theatre worse is that it then clashes with security settings on the next preferred browser, Librewoolf so that a login isn't remembered.
The web is becoming a user-hostile place these days. Yet another gift from the AIbros.
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I have the same problem with captcha... No matter what you do for "click all busses/traffic lights/motorcycles" it never accepts it and keeps looping.
It stopped about a dozen of my purchase attempts, and then I get the "why you abandon shopping cart" email, to which I reply with how they made it impossible to give them money.
It also made it impossible to get an invoice until I fired up a throwaway Win11 VM and used Edge.
Ugh. And they wonder why I munge my user agent so they don't know I'm using Linux.
Becoming? Where have you been for the last 15 years?
I was fixing ransom-ware bricked machines around 2011. Installing A/V for pocket money. Re-installing virus bricked OSs. Locking down OSs to stop infiltrators. 15 years ago.
Becoming? LOL.
Recently I looked over current CCSP and OSCP requirements. It goddamn open warfare every milli-second of the day.
Love the idea that Ameican big-tech wants to gatekeep bots through an American-controlled registry if you want to get to sites by automated means.
Fuck RSS then!
On the one hand, I fully understand the problems that sites are having, getting slammed by both the AI companies themselves, along with AI-slop vibe-coded apps which will make a thousand API calls instead of downloading local copies of data. I am on the receiving end of that myself, as are many people here.
On the other hand, we're entrenching a big-tech-only internet where you can consume with your eyes, but any attempt to innovate or build your own tooling will be stymied by the requirements imposed by big tech to handle the pressures created by... big tech.
Not that this is new - application signing, walled garden app stores, etc. But it's sad to see the great project decline in this fashion.
