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Cloudflare is giving creators control over their content, allowing them to charge or block AI web crawlers from accessing their sites.
The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can ...
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for ...
The Impact of Cloudflare's AI Bot Block Cloudflare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure providers, has launched a new AI Bot Block feature, heralded as a potential ‘game-changer' for content ...
Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...
Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
Cloudflare’s latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a ...
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...
Cloudflare updated its web services to include blocking AI bots and crawlers from sites by default. Co-founder and CEO, ...
Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.