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Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.
Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl is a clever idea. It’s the first genuine attempt to attach a meter to data before it gets ...
The Impact of Cloudflare's AI Bot Block Cloudflare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure providers, has launched a new AI Bot Block feature, heralded as a potential ‘game-changer' for content ...
Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.
Publishers have been warned that AI companies are relying on third-party content scrapers to steal publisher content, even if ...
Every new domain customer that signs up with Cloudflare to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them altogether.
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said this week it’s launching a system to block bots from scraping clients’ sites or at least allow them to charge AI companies for access. These AI ...
In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like unwelcome guests and hints that even Google might be forced to play by his ...
In a brave step, Cloudflare has blocked AI crawlers by default to safeguard publishers. This is all you need to know.
Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...