Its interesting that we are rebranding conventional web scrapers and bots to "AI Agents"
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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The article explicitly mentions that they're not talking about those kind of bots. They're talking about agentic bots, like the ones that search the internet when you ask a chatbot something.
And the source is Cloudflare, who's business model depends on the existence of bots, scrapers, DDoSers, and AI agent nuissances
Cloudflare isnt wrong.
If you want another source: devkitpro and the *brew websites ( wiibrew, wiiubrew, 3dbrew, switchbrew ) have been having issues for more than a year now because ai bots and agents have been using terabytes and terabytes of bandwidth every month. We have slowly come to a moment where hosting mid-popular stuff requires cdn because nobody can handle that content on their own, let alone pay for it
Again, not "agents". Conventional scrapers and crawlers to build datasets for training AI is the culprit.
It's all part of the ploy to push identification across the Internet in the coming years.
Not on my site. Blocked all that shit.