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

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has said that Google will soon allow websites to block their content from appearing in AI Overviews and Answer Boxes without affecting their visibility in traditional ...

Cloudflare lets AI crawlers run aground if not paid for scraping Cloudflare can now protect websites from crawler access by default. However, AI companies can also pay operators for content scraping.

Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model ...

Cloudflare, a company that powers about 20% of all web pages on the web, has announced it is now blocking AI crawlers by default. Plus, it is offering a new model to allow AI services to pay ...

Now millions more will have the option of keeping bot blocking as their default. Cloudflare also says it can identify even “shadow” scrapers that are not publicized by AI companies.

Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work ...

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet, today announced that it has been named a TIME100 Most Influential Company in 2025 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2025--Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet, today announced that it has been named a TIME100 ...

"Cloudflare engineers are working to restore services immediately," the company added. "We are aware of the deep impact this outage has caused and are working with all hands on deck to restore all ...

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In context: AI and zero-click searches are killing the business model of the web that has sustained content creators for the last 15+ years. It's an opinion that is shared by many, including ...