Re:Ask HN: Why is it taking so long to build computer contro...
by louisfialho on Sunday February 23, 2025 @08:12PM
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Good point, raises a very interesting question: if the big websites block agents, won't agents be extremely limited? Should big websites 'charge' agents?
Presently, doing this requires a fair bit of continuous work.
Many websites don't want bots on them and are actively using countermeasures that would block operators in the same way they block scrapers. There is a ton of stuff a website can do to break those bots and they do it. Some even feed back "phantom" data to make the process less reliable.
There are a lot of businesses out there where the business model breaks if someone else can see the whole board.