As someone who’s been on the web since the 90s I hate this.

The web was designed to be user agent agnostic. Desktop, phone, fridge, ai agents, curl, python script - whatever agent you are using shouldn’t matter for access. That’s the whole point of open internet, period.

Open until your server is down because LLM are overloading it

overloading from 200kb of html? We’re not in dialup era anymore

It’s one request Michael, what could it cost? 200kb?

Literally free. So many tech illiterate people in this threat that still think website hosting costs money.

I disagree, someone has to pay for the internet, server and electricity to serve your supposedly “free” page. If you are talking about something like GitHub pages? Not really a solution if Microsoft, just…i dont know, got rid of freebies once they have you locked into hosting your content with them? Corpos would never ensure thay have you locked in as a consumer before turning the screws

There are thousands of alternatives to github pages that will host your content for free. Taking your static website to a different host literally takes 5 minutes. At the scale of Github or Netlify your 1gb/mo bandwidth blog website is a rounding error and well worth the potential conversion price. The ignorance in this thread is astounding.

Okay sure the internet is free and corpos are always going to give web hosting…or i do self host and know that someone has to pay the bill despite it being “200 kb”…bruh, they aint giving it away for free, your content and everything you “own” are the price you pay for admission. Start up or mega corp, if you are not paying for it, you are the product

I literally host like 20 websites for free and here you’re telling me to cry over hosting prices lol