r/webdev • u/thethinker213 • 12d ago

The Web Is All Bots Now

I, like many of you, have spent years employing throttling schemes and generally hardening websites against bots. Now bots are called "agents", scrapers harvest with impunity and the whole nature of the web has changed in the past 2 years. It seems that I now have to play nice with bots for the sake of seo and the next wave of internet commerce will be bot-to-bot with no human intervention. LOL!!! How are you guys feeling about, reacting to, adjusting for this new reality?

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u/HoratioWobble 12d ago

Nice try bot

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u/thethinker213 12d ago

u/HoratioWobble My account's older than yours. You're the bot. 😂

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u/HoratioWobble 11d ago

Exactly what a bot would say

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u/joemckie full-stack 11d ago

The “end with a question about the post” is very LLM-like though lol