Sand is the world's second most used natural resource and sand usable for concrete gets even illegally removed all over the world nowadays.

So to continue your analogy, I made my part of the beach accessible for visitors to enjoy, but certain people think they can carry it away for their own purpose ...

One Reddit post can get an LLM to recommend putting glue in your pizza. But the takeaway here is to cheese the bots.

I have no reason to help the richest companies on earth adjust weights at a cost to myself.

that grain of sand used to bring traffic, now it doesn't. it's pretty much an economic catastrophe for those who relied on it. and it's not free to provide the data to those who will replace you - they abuse your servers while doing it.