Garbage for humans 45 ▲ unstory 96 days ago · Tech · hide · 4 comments Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines: As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Feeding raw HTML to an AI is like paying by the word to read packaging instead of the letter inside. You get HTML, trackers, cookie banners, popups, and JavaScript. This needs a browser built by thousands of engineers just to show you a paragraph. Machines get the clean version. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Blisterexe @Blisterexe@fosstodon.org 95 days ago [-] well put, it's only a problem if it costs them money, not us Drunkboxer @Drunkboxer@mastodon.social 95 days ago [-] in a neat reversal of the norm, we'll soon have browsers that masquerade as bots to receive the clean version. JJ :xubuntu: @jlj@fosstodon.org 94 days ago [-] @Drunkboxer Ha. It's funny 'cause it's true. :) birdbrained :BirbMgpi: @crowy@squawk.social 94 days ago [-] literally begging for more stuff like gemini://
