The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites.

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

Starting from July 1, every new web domain that signs up for Cloudflare will be prompted to choose whether to allow or block AI crawlers by default. This gives website owners the power to prevent AI ...

Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” by default according to an announcement on Tuesday ...

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

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help websites make money from AI firms trying to access and train on their content, ...

Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...

Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to ...

Cloudflare’s new “pay per crawl” initiative has sparked a debate among SEO professionals and digital marketers. The company has introduced a default AI crawler-blocking system alongside new ...

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.

ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.

Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of all web pages on the web, has announced it is now blocking AI crawlers by default. Plus, it is offering a new model to allow AI services to pay ...