Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its “pay-per-crawl” ...
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The author writes, “Cloudflare is experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its ...
Cloudflare, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...
Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...
GenAI-powered search doesn’t behave like Google. Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents don’t just index—they interpret, summarize, and rank your content in ways most audits aren’t built to detect ...
Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...