This is why these things - search engines, AI crawlers, even adblock and video downloaders - exist in a slightly adversarial/parasitic relationship with the sites that provide their content to which they provide nothing back (or negative, if you cost them a page load without incurring an ad view).
I use adblock all the time but I'm very aware that it can only succeed as long as it doesn't win.
This is why these things - search engines, AI crawlers, even adblock and video downloaders - exist in a slightly adversarial/parasitic relationship with the sites that provide their content to which they provide nothing back (or negative, if you cost them a page load without incurring an ad view).
I use adblock all the time but I'm very aware that it can only succeed as long as it doesn't win.