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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 recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape ...
In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...
Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit ...
Several stakeholders support Cloudflare's Pay per Crawl because they believe original content should be protected and ...
A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...
Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
Famous Google bug hunter Tavis Ormandy uncovered the issue, describing it in a brief post, noting that he informed CloudFlare of the problem on February 17.In his own proof-of-concept attack he ...
Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help ...
Around 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 12, users started reporting widespread service disruptions at popular websites and apps, including Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo Switch Online, Spotify, and ...