Comment by notatoad

as a website operator, i want my website to not experience downtime and unreliability because of usage rates that exceed the rate at which humans load pages, and i want to not be defrauded.

if you want to access my website using automated tools, that's fine. but if there's a certain automated tool that is consistently used to either break the site or attempt to defraud me, i'm going to do my best to block that tool. and sometimes that means blocking other, similar tools.

if the webMCP client in chrome behaves in a reasonable way that prevents abuse, then i don't see a problem with it. if scammers discover they can use it to scam, then websites will block it too.