Google building harder walls against bots while simultaneously building AI agents that need to get through them is peak 2026.

▲ tardedmeme 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're expecting everyone to whitelist Google agents because Google has the market share for people to complain if Google agents don't work.

▲ Analemma_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s the same thing with Sam Altman and Worldcoin: create the problem, then sell people the solution (which also just so happens to shred more privacy). Play both sides and profit; it’s great work if you can get it.

▲ mandeepj 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Point On! Probably done by two different teams, who don't know about each other. I hate this (re)captcha so bad. They assume everyone is bad.

▲ throwaway67743 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

With the apparent competence that built Gemini, I have zero faith in Google building or doing anything that works anymore.

	▲	throwaway67743 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To counter the idiot downvotes, I proffer this as a prime example of Gemini: Resolving Final Compilation Conflict: I will remove the redundant `Entry` type declaration to resolve the compilation conflict and finalize the in-memory `StdNetDB` refactor. Edit std.go → Accepted (+0, -1) 31 type Entry struct { 32 RouterInfo router_info.RouterInfo 33 } 34 - 34 func NewStdNetDB(db string) StdNetDB { 35 ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background()) 36 return &StdNetDB{ That and the cli keeps exiting 0, without hinting why... Quality like the "AI Overview" that hijacks an entire page and isn't even relevant to the search terms - uBlock still doing god's work. It made me realise I was perhaps a bit hard on Claude (but then it did something equally as dumb)