Comment by motorest
9 months ago
I see what you mean, and I am divided on the issue. On one hand, I don't think it's fair to have AI companies to freely scrape the world without fairly compensating content producers. On the other hand, adding more gatekeepers to the web ends up killing it.
This feels like a lose-lose situation.
Cloudflare is most active in pushing standards, and highlighting the issue of bots scraping web pages for free. That said, the other major CDNs (e.g. Akamai, Fastly) also have Bot Management functionality, so hopefully this is not a gatekeeping scenario, more of a standards-building scenario.
In some positive news today, Cloudflare is sponsoring the Ladybird browser effort:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332860
That's not nothing.
Its a token gesture. Ladybird is not a serious disruption.
How could you be so confident about such a thing?
Are you implying it's going to fail in its goal as a competing browser, or that the competition is somehow irrelevant in a world that's forced to be slave to Google/Apple?
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Likely related on getting influece in order to enforce the gatekeeping standards, unfortunately.
Even if you end up being right, which is not outside of the realm of possibility, it's still huge to get a boost on breaking the browser duopoly while ironing out longstanding issues with web standards.
That feels like a bog basic false choice fallacy.
> That feels like a bog basic false choice fallacy.
Only if you somehow believe you have a choice, or even a say.
That is a lot of hands... Are you AI generated? lol =3
Two _is_ more than the average, but not by that much...
> On the other hand, adding more gatekeepers to the web ends up killing it.
LOL, what?