Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its “pay-per-crawl” ...

Anthropic updated its crawler documentation this week, clarifying how its Claude bots access websites and how you can block them. Why we care. If you publish or own content, you want control over how ...

The author writes, “Cloudflare is experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its ...

Cloudflare, which services about 20% of websites, announced Tuesday that it is now blocking web-scraping AI bots from accessing those sites by default. Unless a website explicitly turns off the ...

Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...