Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites

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Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 21 days ago

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Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators.

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