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anti-AI scraping is often anti-privacy in practice, as any effective implementation requires invasive browser inspection to detect scrapers.

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The web is for bots now. Humans are the minority and will get pushed out, or leave in the face of various pending identity verification schemes to get past the bot filters.

The web was always intended for both humans and machines.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

"Web 3.0" and "always" doesn't seem to align by any stretch.

The idea wasn't really named/documented until ~1997 (I think), but the seed of it was in Tim's original WWW proposal from 1989.

"The second part of the dream was that, [...] The computer renters the scene visibly as a software agent, doing anything it can to help us deal with the bulk of data..." - https://repository.cern/records/6kxvc-v6203/preview/dd-89-00... - https://www.w3.org/1998/02/Potential.html

Never thought I'd miss the days when block(chain)heads thought they had the rights to the term Web 3.0.

Identity verification will gate the web due to various political and legal pressures. Anonymity will only be found outside it.

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