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Cloudflare's New AI Bot Blocking and Monetization Measures Impact the Internet

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Cloudflare's New AI Bot Blocking and Monetization Measures Impact the Internet
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Cloudflare has changed its policy to block AI web crawlers by default, requiring explicit permission and introducing a 'Pay Per Crawl' system to address concerns from publishers and website owners about unauthorized content scraping by AI companies, potentially impacting AI training and web traffic.

Topics:business#ai-crawlers#cloudflare#content-licensing#internet-policy#technology#web-content
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  1. Cloudflare just changed the internet, and it's bad news for the AI giants  ZDNET
  2. Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default  The New York Times
  3. Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access  The Cloudflare Blog
  4. Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker  BBC
  5. Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites  MIT Technology Review

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