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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. Source: Garbage for humans I don’t mean to pick on this author. At the end of the day, it’s their opinion, and you know what, more power to them. They also seem to think that browsers not supporting markdown natively seems to be a conspiracy of sorts. It isn’t. However, in the off chance that they read this, I’d like to offer some help to them. One is advice - of the take-it-or-leave-it kind. I will follow that up with tips on how to regain control of the web using…

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