Cloudflare's bot checks called out for wasting agents' time and tokens
msg · x · 2026-09-24
Author msg complains that Cloudflare's bot-verification is "wasting everybody's time + tokens," while musing whether to buy more $NET stock precisely because of its "tollbooth" position against AI crawlers and agents. The post captures a fresh tension of the agent era: Cloudflare's anti-crawler stance vs. developers whose automated agents burn compute hitting these walls.
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