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 ...

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

The IAB Tech Lab's new initiative suggests regulations for how AI bots can access content, ensuring that publishers are ...

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