Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl is a clever idea. It’s the first genuine attempt to attach a meter to data before it gets ...

The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through Cloudflare's pipes.

The first is that Cloudflare users can control bots' access to websites. In the blog post, it said: "Many small sites don’t have the skills or bandwidth to manually block AI bots.

TheStreet. Matthew Prince won't back down. The co-founder and chief executive of cybersecurity Cloudflare (NET) warned that search traffic referrals have plummeted as people increasingly rely on ...

Cloudflare had previously introduced a one-click block option to stop web crawlers in September 2024 – and said over a million customers have opted in to date.

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 ...

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through ...

I don’t know. But I know that CloudFlare is often standing between me and a website I’m interested in, even though I’m just an old fart with a cable connection and not a scammer.

The first is that Cloudflare users can control bots' access to websites. In the blog post, it said: "Many small sites don’t have the skills or bandwidth to manually block AI bots.

Content creators can now control AI crawlersThe company has revived HTTP response code 402 as a neat way to block or charge AI crawlers to access your site in a new feature it calls ‘pay per ...