[MattDaEskimo]

API-based interactions w/ Authentication.

Websites previously would have their own in-house API to freely deliver content to anyone who requests it.

Now, a website should be a simple interface for a user that communicates with an external API and display it. It's the user's responsibility to have access to the API.

Any information worth taking should be locked away by Authentication - which has become stupid simple using oAuth w/ major providers.

So these people trying to extract content by paying someone or using a paid service should rather use the API which packages it for them and is fairly priced.

Lastly, robots.txt should be enforced by law. There is no difference from stealing something from a store, and stealing content from a website.

AI (and greed) has killed the open freedoms of the Internet.