I dont think they're doing this to kill off browser engines; they're trying to sift browsers into "user" and "AI slop", so they can prioritize users.
This is entirely web crawler 2.0 apocolypse.
man i just want a bot to buy groceries for me
That’s one of the few reasons to leave the house. I’d like dishes and laundry bots first, please.
You mean dishwashers and washing machines?
Yes, but no. I want a robot to load and unload those.
I have been paying my local laundromat to do mu laundry for over a decade now, it’s probably cheaper than youre imagining and sooo worth it.
my household is 6 people, it isn't uncommon to run 3 washing machine loads in a day and days without at least one are rare. I can imagine the convenience, but at this scale it sounds a bit unreasonable.
dishwasher runs at least once a day, at least 80% full, every day, unless we're traveling.
I think "slop" only refers to the output of generative AI systems. bot, crawler, scraper, or spider would be a more apt term for software making (excessive) requests to collect data.