The web is becoming a customs checkpoint for bots
Cloudflare is separating search, training, and agent crawlers; Google users are training its AI unless they opt out; and Reddit is using LLMs to fight a problem LLMs largely created. Together, these stories show the same shift from three angles: the open web is no longer a neutral pile of pages, but a contested surface where products must decide which machines get in, what they can take, and who they are acting for.