Internet may need paid lanes for AI agents as CAPTCHAs keep blocking searches

xuanalogue · x · 2026-07-21

Not sure how to solve it, but the future Internet may need a paid lane for registered AI agents and a free lane for humans, so sites stop CAPTCHA-ing everyone.

A reply adds a concrete pain point: heavy AI-agent-related searching on Google Scholar now triggers repeated CAPTCHA checks, making research workflows worse.

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