[walterbell]

> now every time someone searches for your site they will be taken straight to competitors

There are non-LLM forms of distribution, including traditional web search and human word of mouth. For some niche websites, a reduction in LLM-search users could be considered a positive community filter. If LLM scraper bots agree to follow longstanding robots.txt protocols, they can join the community of civilized internet participants.

[knuppar]

Exactly. Not every website needs to be at the top of SEO (or LLM-O?). Increasingly the niche web feels nicer and nicer as centralized platforms expand.