I've been paying attention to Sherry Turkle since I caught this show over the summer. She was on a panel at Davos titled "Swipe Left on Reality" which was the first time I heard her use the phrase "frictionless relationships" to describe what interacting with Ai is like.
Every word of hers is dripping with wisdom, and I feel not enough people are paying attention to her. She talks of "artificial intimacy" and "pretend empathy" and how people are addicted to ChatGPT and its ilk primarily because of the pretension / sycophancy, and choosing that over the real-life friction, disagreements and negotiation required and necessary for healthy relationships IRL. And how social media is a gateway drug to chatbots.
When you come up with some solution, you don't know it's an actual solution, it is filled with your assumptions.
The point of talking to users is to (in)validate as many of your assumptions as possible. It involves no selling or promotion or even demos when done well.
Just to clarify, this isn't meant to be an anonymity tool. The main issue we were trying to solve was reliability. Cloud IPs get flagged very fast now, even for normal automation or testing.
On the crypto part, we accept USDC as one payment option, but credit and debit cards are also supported.
We're not trying to build something for scammers. The focus is developer use cases. Happy to answer anything specific.
Everything about this is about breaking the rules and ruining shared things, you wouldn't get blocked if you are a good denizen, so I personally will classify this with the scammers and spammers, much to your chagrin.
Automation on the web is very common and often legitimate. Things like automated testing, price monitoring, security research, uptime checks, SEO auditing, even AI agents interacting with sites that explicitly allow it.
A lot of companies run automation against their own systems as well.
The issue we kept seeing was that entire cloud IP ranges get flagged by default, even when the activity itself isn't abusive.
Definitely not trying to encourage breaking rules. Just trying to make legitimate automation more reliable.
"What to do when Ai says 'I love you'?" discusses this conundrum
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/g-s1177-78041/what-to-do-when...
I've been paying attention to Sherry Turkle since I caught this show over the summer. She was on a panel at Davos titled "Swipe Left on Reality" which was the first time I heard her use the phrase "frictionless relationships" to describe what interacting with Ai is like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C9Gb3rVMTg
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