[jawns]

Big brands spend millions establishing a particular look, style, format. They don't want you to treat their sites as merely a set of APIs to scrape and customize based on your own style preferences. They want you to have a branded experience.

[userbinator]

Too bad, I control the client and not them.

[fodkodrasz]

That may not be for long. How far are we from requiring age check and ID for every curl request?

[sublinear]

Have a proof of concept?

[pilgrim0]

You’re absolutely right. But consider big brands make for a minor percentage of sites on the web. Also recall that all those big brands have standard profiles on social media and they share the very same layout as your local dog shelter. They have no problem with that.

[mike_hearn]

They do have a problem with that. I don't see companies bigger than the dog shelter directing users to their Facebook page anymore. They all have unique looking websites.

[jonnonz]

Why not both? Look at stripe or shopify for example

[bpodgursky]

So?

It doesn't really matter what they want. Chat interfaces are doing this from the opposite direction, pulling the data down and explaining it to you, it's not a big leap for LLMs to turn their markdown responses into a slightly richer experience you can browse natively.

[jonahx]

> So?

The point of the OP is that the companies would willing cooperate and replace their websites with LLM consumable APIs.

It's a different question whether this will happen despite their objections, as a kind of logical conclusion of the greasemonkey plugin.

[bpodgursky]

LLMs don't need consumable APIs. It's a barrier from an older era (aka 2 years ago). If a person can read it, a LLM can read it.