The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can access their sites.

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

The Impact of Cloudflare's AI Bot Block Cloudflare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure providers, has launched a new AI Bot Block feature, heralded as a potential ‘game-changer' for content ...

Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

From today, Cloudflare users will be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers from accessing their web content without permission of monetary compensation by default, in a bid to stop ...

ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.

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 from July 1, every new web domain that signs up for Cloudflare will be prompted to choose whether to allow or block AI crawlers by default. This gives website owners the power to prevent AI ...

Cloudflare’s new pay per crawl system for site owners and content creators is currently in a private beta. ... Block: Use this option to block an AI crawler’s access entirely.

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 ...

Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to ...

Websites will find it easier to lock out bots from AI companies like OpenAI and Google that are taking data to train their ...