Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...

Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.

In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers.

Cloudflare’s latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a ...

Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit.

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...

Several stakeholders support Cloudflare's Pay per Crawl because they believe original content should be protected and ...