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Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Cloudflare, one of the world's largest content delivery networks and web security service providers, is taking on AI bots ...
The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.
Cloudflare is giving creators control over their content, allowing them to charge or block AI web crawlers from accessing ...
The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can ...
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for ...
The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites.
Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and ...