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Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites
(www.computerworld.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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I don't believe they have that capability
Oh yes, they have and more, they are one of the most powerfull security and AI company with a ton of services. Perfectly capable to remove the plug of any service and web. Sadly with similar privacy concerns as Google.
https://www.cloudflare.com/
Okay great. Go ahead and explain to me how they plan to fight an army of bots doing everything they can to be invisible?
It's literally what their entire business is based on. Filtering good and bad traffic.
Their business is largely based on security and preventing specific types of actions on a site. Not just the mere act of visiting it.
It is. And they are blocking AI crawler for a while now. https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/