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Comment by SilverElfin

20 hours ago

I feel like this is a way to ultimately limit the ability to scrape but also the ability to use your own AI agent to take actions across the internet for you. Like how Amazon doesn’t let your agent to shop their site for you, but they’ll happily scrape every competitor’s website to enforce their anti competitive price fixing scheme. They want to allow and deny access on their terms.

WebMCP will become another channel controlled by big tech and it’ll come with controls. First they’ll lure people to use this method for the situations they want to allow, and then they’ll block everything else.