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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites

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Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites

www.computerworld.com

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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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Their business is largely based on security and preventing specific types of actions on a site. Not just the mere act of visiting it.

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