I agree with your sentiment. It’s sad that your (or my) website can’t respond with a X-This-Website-is-not-AI-Garbage header to indicate that “Hey user, you can actually just open this website and read it and get the infos you need without an AI assistant.”.

I’m pretty sure Firefox’s preflight request will also not load ads and so could be seen as a bad scraper.

Awesome! Now half the sites on the web contain a tiny drop of information, buried under paragraphs and paragraphs of GPT-generated text, and now my browser uses the same LLM to reverse engineer the original information. What could possibly go wrong the LLMs talk to other LLMs and summarize, bloat, summarize and then bloat and then finally summarize every bit of information for us.

Do we actually still make websites for humans, or is it all just AIs and SEO?

Have you tried setting browser.ml.chat.enabled to false in about:config? That immediately removes the chatbot from my sidebar.