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

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.

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Cloudflare's new default policy blocks AI crawlers, requiring them to ask for access and pay to crawl websites. This shift ...

Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

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.

Cloudflare’s new “pay per crawl” initiative has sparked a debate among SEO professionals and digital marketers. The company has introduced a default AI crawler-blocking system alongside new ...

Cloudflare has launched a tool that blocks bot crawlers from accessing content without permission or compensation to help websites make money from AI firms trying to access and train on their content, ...

Cloudflare aims to make such deals occur through a network handshake. The firm's payment service, now in private beta testing, is called Pay per crawl.

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.