Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

#1

Post by tilt » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

Re: Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

#2

Post by kaangiray26 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC

hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat

#3

Post by qznc » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

kaangiray26 wrote: post #2

hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat

Yeah, that is why this will not get popular.

#4

Post by a2ff6eeb0 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:54 PM UTC

Hm, interesting avenue for prompt injection.

#5

Post by maurelius2 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:55 PM UTC

Even without AI this would be a nice feature.

#6

Post by jiehong » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

kaangiray26 wrote: post #2

hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat

Markdown ads?

#7

Post by monneyboi » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

Yeah, this is the way forward. All the POW stuff is such a waste of energy.

The open internet deserves a real solution instead of gatekeepers in the form of brightdata, firecrawl, cloudflare and the likes.

#8

Post by Elfener » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

kaangiray26 wrote: post #2

hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat

> But imagine for a second they did do that. You get the API, all the info is there.

> Why do you need AI then?

(from this HN comment, worth a read in full: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679585)

#9

Post by shahariaa » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

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#10

Post by spockz » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #4

Hm, interesting avenue for prompt injection.

How is that different from today where agents just do searches and ingest web pages?