Grok Bot can now route through your local machine, and users are already exploiting it for scraping
iannuttall · x · 2026-09-15
Elon Musk announced Grok Bot can now route requests through your local machine. Developer iannuttall says he'll pair it with a Mac Mini to scrape stubborn sites that proxies couldn't get around — a pointed example of the feature's real value for bypassing scraping blocks.
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