The crawler user agent is just named "Google,"
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Very sneaky.
Can we get rid of the current model where websites are financed by ads and have instead these AI companies pay the websites they crawl?
I could really do with less ads if they are going to crawl the web anyway.
Probably just a misconfigured bot and nothing special.