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 ...

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

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

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

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.

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...

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 ...

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 ...