You might be correct T. I think they’ve been bad for a while (for me, no A.I. content) so I’d kind of gotten used to the trickle anyway. They’ll continue to look after premium publishers I’m sure. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I know right 🤣

Shame on you. Arseholer behaviour.

Generally, I block all ai bots in cloudflare mainly because I don’t see the value in the bandwidth suck resource drain vs the reward 🤷🏻‍♂️

We’ll see a greater push in our socials and the tv, Gooogle and Bing will be pushing it hard, because the opportunity benefits are potentially huge! They could get paid per sale, further marginalising free organic 😉

hink you’re right T, but some of the agentic experiences if presented right can look cool. I think that’s the draw for the engines, they can make their platform stickier through decent ui and giving users a seamless experience but, the devils in the detail and people do like diversity of UX too!

Control the browser and you get to decide a whole lot more of who sees what and how.

Of course it’s fraught with legal and competition rules and regs too; consumers won’t be too enamoured with niche providers not giving the value they expect - and what of the “open” web? Where do we go with that. ChatGPT are already pushing their own browser to users, because that’s a pinch point

Without trust, it’s back to Wild West stuff, I reckon we’ll see a rest of recommendations down the line. It’s genius for ad platforms as they stand to get a sales % of most transactions from trusted participants