Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but…
Bot control.
Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.
I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers
I think they’re also trying to pump up logged in unique visits for investors. They’ve been stagnant on those but non-logged in visits have been going up steadily. I think they’re trying to convert a fraction of those visits into logged in accounts.
Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but…
Bot control.
Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.
I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers
I think they’re also trying to pump up logged in unique visits for investors. They’ve been stagnant on those but non-logged in visits have been going up steadily. I think they’re trying to convert a fraction of those visits into logged in accounts.