[leros]

I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else.

I've redesigned my site to have enough content so that AI knows what I have but they have to send the user to my site to use an interactive JavaScript widget to get the final answer they need. So far so good, but not sure how long that will work for.

[sroussey]

I’m at a loss for how this works since agents just use a browser and see the same thing users see

[leros]

So far I haven't seen crawlers or agents utilize the interactive map widget where the final useful data is located. I'm sure it will happen eventually.

I can tell they're not using it because the page is getting hit by their user agents but my API is not.

[subscribed]

If I have to use "interactive map widget" and you weren't the only supplier of the lifesaving thing I'd noped out of there faster than I arrived (and then blacklisted you in kagi to never come back again).

Your site, your choices.

But also: hostile design? My choice.

[leros]

You shouldn't assume it's a hostile design. Do you think Google Maps is a hostile design? It's a similar use case.

[zb3]

Oh, I've finally found one of those enshittifiers of the internet, hi there, it's the first time I can ask some questions directly..

So:

- are you certain this "revenue" doesn't come from ads promoting scams? or you simply don't care?

- what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties instead of putting these artificial obstacles?

[leros]

You sure have jumped to a lot of conclusions. I have a consumer product that people purchase. My free content is a gateway to that product.

[throwaway290]

> what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties

which LLMs are doing this?