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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

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454 points positiveblue | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TIPSIO ◴[29 Aug 25 16:57 UTC] No.45066555[source]▶
Everyone loves the dream of a free for all and open web.

But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots? E.g.: They just blindly trust someone is sending Agent vs Training bots and super duper respecting robots.txt? Get real...

Or, fine what if they do respect robots.txt, but they buy the data that may or may not have been shielded through liability layers via "licensed data"?

Unless you're reddit, X, Google, or Meta with scary unlimited budget legal teams, you have no power.

Great video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M0QyOp7zqcY

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1. 42lux ◴[29 Aug 25 19:45 UTC] No.45068551[source]▶
We have thousands of engineers of these companies right here on hackernews and they cry and scream about privacy and data governance on every topic but their own work. If you guys need a mirror to do some self reflection I am offering to buy.
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2. csomar ◴[30 Aug 25 11:34 UTC] No.45073786[source]▶
I'll contribute for the mirror. The hypocrisy is so loud, aliens in outer space can hear it (and sound doesn't even travel in vacuum).
3. tucnak ◴[30 Aug 25 12:37 UTC] No.45074113[source]▶
In the recent days, the biggest delu-lulz was delivered by that guy who'd bravely decided to boycott Grok out of... environmental concerns, apparently. It's curious how everybody is so anxious these days, about AI among other things in our little corner of the web. I swear, every other day it's some new big fight against something... bad. Surely it couldn't ALL be attributed to policy in the US!