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No Hacks with Slobodan Manić

by Slobodan "Sani" Manić · English

No Hacks is a weekly podcast and YouTube show, hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manić, on how AI is changing the way people search, choose and buy online. AI is changing the way people use the internet, and nobody asked us if we wanted it changed. People ask AI instead of searching, let it read the page for them, and more and more, let it choose and buy. So every week I look at one of those changes: an AI that signs into websites with your saved passwords, three AI models that picked three different products for the same shopping request, an AI assistant whose calls to businesses were placed by people in a call center. Then I tell you whether it's good, bad, or pointless, and what it means for the business on the other side. Around fifteen minutes, every Saturday morning, usually me on my own, always with the receipts. Hosted by Slobodan Manić, a CXL-certified conversion specialist, WordPress Core Contributor, and the creator of Machine-First Architecture.

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235: Your Website Is Your Source Of Truth, Not Your Traffic Source with Amanda Natividad, Co-Author of Zero Click Marketing

Zero-click marketing argues that your website is the “source of truth” even when users don’t click through from ads/search.

31 Oct 2026 · 30m · 12 chapters

234: OpenAI's Dots Are Cute. What They Do With Your Data Is Not.

OpenAI’s “Dots” (agentic web agents with cute character interfaces) and the episode’s critique of how they access and potentially train on users’ data, bypass site blocks, and handle denied access.

2 Oct 2026 · 15m · 6 chapters

233: Muse Is Why Meta Has No Business Building The Agentic Web

Meta’s AI agent “Muse” and the “agentic web,” focusing on privacy/security concerns, centralized control, and monetization (“salami slicing”).

26 Sep 2026 · 18m · 10 chapters

232: The Agentic Web Is Still A Single-Player Game

The episode argues that “agentic web” standards for AI agents (A2A/agent-to-agent) are mostly not delivering true multi-agent negotiation yet; today, most interactions still resemble single-player…

16 Sep 2026 · 19m · 10 chapters

231: A Paywall Stopped ChatGPT From Reading The Article. It Confidently Summarised It For Me Anyway.

The episode investigates how a Variety paywall using Tollbit’s “402 Payment Required” blocks AI crawlers, yet LLMs still summarize the article using other sources, spreading the news anyway.

10 Sep 2026 · 23m · 11 chapters

230: A Shoe Company And A Cookie Company Now Say The Exact Same Thing To AI Agents

Shopify’s new WebMCP/agent-facing layer makes different Shopify stores expose identical “tool” interfaces to AI agents, enabling agents to search catalogs, view products, and proceed to checkout via…

12 Aug 2026 · 17m · 4 chapters

229: Does llms.txt Work? What 137,000 Domains' Server Logs Show

The episode critiques “AI search optimization” hacks and tests one popular tactic, llms.txt, using server-log evidence, arguing most marketing claims lack proof.

5 Aug 2026 · 20m · 11 chapters