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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators.

MRKT360 welcomes Cloudflare's AI rules as a win for copyright, but warns businesses may be unknowingly blocked, risking SEO without realizing it.< ...

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

MRKT360 emphasizes that while Cloudflare’s AI crawler monetization feature is still in beta, now is the time to prepare. The agency has already begun updating client frameworks to reflect this ...