Cloudflare has long been the internet’s quiet helper, speeding up websites, defending against bots, and keeping publishers online.   But its latest move is something else entirely. It now allows ...

CEO Matthew Prince unveils powerful new tools to block AI companies from freely scraping web content, a move that could ...

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 ...

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Publishers including Condé Nast and Sky News have welcomed the new tech from internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.

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 ...

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.

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.