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Cloudflare is introducing a way to charge AI web scrapers Content creators can protect their sites from unwanted scrapers Specific crawlers can be granted free access, charged, or blocked Online ...

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

Cloudflare will block AI crawlers from accessing web pages by default, while providing more granular options for site owners to control the type of AI bots to crawl their pages.

Now millions more will have the option of keeping bot blocking as their default. Cloudflare also says it can identify even “shadow” scrapers that are not publicized by AI companies.

Every new domain customer that signs up with Cloudflare to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them altogether.

The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced today that it will now default to blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts. Cloudflare will also give clients the ability to ...