> The "good bots" which identify themselves and follow the rules are easy enough to block, so not a problem. And then they get blocked, which is a problem. In

> The "good bots" which identify themselves and follow the rules are easy enough to block, so not a problem. And then they get blocked, which is a problem. In particular, the modern agentic AI tools interacting with web services to fulfill user queries - they are acting as user agents, and they should not be discriminated against. So I'd say the first pattern that needs to be broadly adopted is non-discrimination of user agents. But of course we've tried that in the past, the whole problem is that non-browser user agents == end-user automation, which is anathema to pretty much every on-line business out there, as money made online is primarily conditioned on users wasting their own lives on interacting with services directly.