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, ...

Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit ...

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 ...

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 ...

The permission and payment model marks a significant shift with major implications for the advertising and digital ecosystem.

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.

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

Cloudflare's new pay-per-crawl feature blocks AI crawlers and allows publishers to charge for access, sparking debate in the SEO industry over content visibility and monetization.

Cloudflare has rolled out a sweeping update to its platform that will block artificial intelligence crawlers by default from accessing content across websites using its network. The decision, ...

Cloudflare has unveiled how it is taking a stand against AI companies and protecting all of the websites it hosts from ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -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 ...

Cloudflare Confronts AI Content Scrapers With '402' Pay Code - 07/01/2025. ... but felt they needed some type of monetization model. ...