hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat
> Why do you need AI then?
(from this HN comment, worth a read in full: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679585)
It's giving https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224
Except it isn't. Someone else could build that stupid frontend, and essentially create a better booking.com. Or you could ask the robot to make you a stupid frontend. It remains true that a well-designed MCP server goes wildly against the interests of sites like booking.com.
Even something as simple as a recipe blog. That one is already solved by chatbots, and it’s glorious. I never have to look at a shitty recipe site full of ads with the recipe buried beneath a mile of fake stories again. LLM finds some, reads reviews, I pick one, if it’s good import to paprika, and that’s that.
There’s at least a chance that enough people demand it, combined with AI hype, that we could end up with a slightly better experience.
And if not, then there’s always the brute force approach of something like grok bot