Troed Sångberg on Nostr: There's no cost difference between me going to the site myself or if my agent does ...

There's no cost difference between me going to the site myself or if my agent does it. We already let people use automated tools when they require them (we even legally mandate accessibility).

I thought the reason people implemented bot protection was to dissuade the automated scraping (which can be resource heavy and require mitigation on the part of the site owner*) - not in a punitive "I don't want you using LLMs" way.

*) https://blog.troed.se/posts/nginx-meta-rate-limiting/