I dont think they're doing this to kill off browser engines; they're trying to sift browsers into "user" and "AI slop", so they can prioritize users.

This is entirely web crawler 2.0 apocolypse.

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nicman23 5 months ago | parent | next [-]

man i just want a bot to buy groceries for me

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baq 5 months ago | parent [-]

That’s one of the few reasons to leave the house. I’d like dishes and laundry bots first, please.

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dodslaser 5 months ago | parent | next [-]

You mean dishwashers and washing machines?

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baq 5 months ago | parent [-]

Yes, but no. I want a robot to load and unload those.

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dec0dedab0de 5 months ago | parent [-]

I have been paying my local laundromat to do mu laundry for over a decade now, it’s probably cheaper than youre imagining and sooo worth it.

	▲	baq 5 months ago \| parent [-]
		my household is 6 people, it isn't uncommon to run 3 washing machine loads in a day and days without at least one are rare. I can imagine the convenience, but at this scale it sounds a bit unreasonable. dishwasher runs at least once a day, at least 80% full, every day, unless we're traveling.

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nicman23 5 months ago | parent | prev [-]

i mean it is called a dishwasher

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extraduder_ire 5 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I think "slop" only refers to the output of generative AI systems. bot, crawler, scraper, or spider would be a more apt term for software making (excessive) requests to collect data.