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.

Cloudflare has introduced a new way for websites to stop AI crawlers from stealing their content without permission—and to potentially get them to pay up.. Cloudflare is an internet ...

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

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 ...

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.