# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-08T06:26:48.459Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-08/time-is-serving-advertisement-bearing-markdown-pages-that-on
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time_magazine_has_a_separate_version_of_its_website_with_ads_only_ai_can_see/5283640), [Digiday](https://digiday.com/media/time-has-started-serving-ads-to-ai-agents/)

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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