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I mean, this is how Google was built.


Not a fair statement. Google wasn't built on bypassing bot protections.

Google is providing a service to the websites they crawl.

They try to not crawl when we don't want them (robots.txt, clear user-agent, no-index no-follow...).


> Google is providing a service to the websites they crawl.

Yeah they're building an LLM and making it pointless to visit the websites.


Let's agree on "Google was providing a service". Current and future state can be questionable.

Btw you can still block it.




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