alt Hacker NewsGoogle building harder walls against bots while simultaneously building AI agents that need to get through them is peak 2026.
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tardedmeme • today at 6:55 PM
They're expecting everyone to whitelist Google agents because Google has the market share for people to complain if Google agents don't work.
mandeepj • today at 7:41 PM
Point On! Probably done by two different teams, who don't know about each other. I hate this (re)captcha so bad. They assume everyone is bad.
With the apparent competence that built Gemini, I have zero faith in Google building or doing anything that works anymore.