while adversarial blocking is a possibility it comes with a real financial penalty on the side of the content provider, fewer agents competing for your content does mean fewer agent providers to haggle with, ergo, a high likelihood of a bad deal.
in a perfect world they'd serve as IDs for agents similar to a person's ID card, but spoofing is a potentially massive issue. what stops a content provider capturing an agent's ID and repeatedly hitting their own endpoints?
brighter men than me will have to figure most of this out, but i wanted to put this thought out into the universe
i tried out this agentic web browser and it's really good. sure, it needs a bit of polish but i genuinely think i've seen the future.as a web developer this got me thinking, "what happens to our interfaces and ads and revenue models?" i wanted to posit this idea of agent access tokens or AATs. basically an agentic browser would offer up a token and be authorized by the target website, which...