> The internet we knew was open and not trusted ... monopolistic behavior
Monopolistic is the wrong word, because you have the problem backwards. Cloudflare isnt helping Apple/Google... It's helping its paying consumers and those are the only services those consumers want to let through.
Do you know how I can predict that AI agents, the sort that end users use to accomplish real tasks, will never take off? Because the people your agent would interact with want your EYEBALLS for ads, build anti patterns on purpose, want to make it hard to unsubscribe, cancel, get a refund, do a return.
AI that is useful to people will fail. For the same reason that no one has great public API's any more. Because every public companies real customers are its stock holders, and the consumers are simply a source of revenue. One that is modeled, marked to, and manipulated all in the name of returns on investment.
I disagree about AI agents, at least those that work by automating a web browser that a human could also use. I suppose Google's proposal to add remote attestation to Chrome might make it a little harder, but that seems to be dead for now (and I hope forever).
Monopolistic is the wrong word, because you have the problem backwards. Cloudflare isnt helping Apple/Google... It's helping its paying consumers and those are the only services those consumers want to let through.
Do you know how I can predict that AI agents, the sort that end users use to accomplish real tasks, will never take off? Because the people your agent would interact with want your EYEBALLS for ads, build anti patterns on purpose, want to make it hard to unsubscribe, cancel, get a refund, do a return.
AI that is useful to people will fail. For the same reason that no one has great public API's any more. Because every public companies real customers are its stock holders, and the consumers are simply a source of revenue. One that is modeled, marked to, and manipulated all in the name of returns on investment.