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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 8, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Time Is Serving Advertisement-Bearing Markdown Pages That Only AI Crawlers See
ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, and PerplexityBot receive sponsored versions of articles while ordinary browsers and Google's search crawler get the normal HTML.
Time has begun serving a second version of parts of its website, written in Markdown and containing embedded advertising, to the crawlers used by AI assistants. A German-based developer, Vincent Schmalbach, found sponsored content in those…
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