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 ...

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

Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.

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 ...

Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.

A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...

The delivery network through whose servers about a fifth of all internet traffic passes is blocking AI web crawlers ...

Cloudflare CEO, Matthew Prince, has initiated a policy to block AI companies from scraping data unless they compensate content creators, potentially impacting giants like Google.