Cloudflare to Default Block AI Crawlers and Introduce Pay-Per-Crawl Model

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Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default and introduce a 'Pay Per Crawl' fee for some publishers to ensure content is accessed with permission and compensation, aiming to protect original content while supporting AI innovation.
- Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default The Verge
- Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers The New York Times
- Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access The Cloudflare Blog
- Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default CNBC
- Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl Ars Technica
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