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With agents like Finic, soon the web will be built for agents, rather than humans. I can see a few years from now almost all web traffic is agents.

• jasonwcfan 2y ago
  Yep. I used to be the guy responsible for bot detection at Robinhood so I can tell you firsthand it's impossible to reliably differentiate between humans and machines over a network. So either you accept being automated, or you overcorrect and block legitimate users. I don't think the dead internet theory is true today, but I think it will be true soon. IMO that's actually a good thing, more agents representing us online = more time spent in the real world.
  • candiddevmike 2y ago
    That is some bizarre mental gymnastics to justify the work you've done. What about the rest of us who don't want agents representing us?
    • ayanb9440 2y ago
      If you want to use an agent for scraping/automation, you would need to supply it with auth credentials. So permission is required by default.
    • whatshisface 2y ago
      I think they're talking about agents that click through insurance and bank forms, not bots that post on social media.