Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl is a clever idea. It’s the first genuine attempt to attach a meter to data before it gets ...

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

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 ...

Cloudflare is using Workers AI to generate this content ahead of time. The pages are stored in R2 storage for fast retrieval, and care is taken to prevent cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping. ... Each publisher will be able to set their own prices that bots must pay before scraping content, Cloudflare said.

On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping data from its sites without opt-in permission. Cloudflare hosts about 20 percent of the ...

This permission-based approach contrasts with the previous model, where web scraping relied on loosely enforced rules, such as robots.txt. Read more on AI scraping: Gray Bots Surge as Generative AI ...

Roughly 16% of global internet traffic goes directly through Cloudflare's CDN, the firm estimated in a 2023 report. "AI crawlers have been scraping content without limits.

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through ...