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The Web Scraping Consent Model Was Always Broken. AI Just Made It Obvious.
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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@davel @hobata Is there something to this beyond the headline. I’m mildly annoyed by these posts that just link back to themselves. What the hell is that all about?
All I can take from the headline is, yeah, the consent model is basically Old West with richer Rancher Barons.
Its a link to my blog post:
https://agamsingh9.codeberg.page/posts/ai-web-scrapers/
Is the link not working?