AI search engines are having a moment — and by moment, we mean they’re everywhere. With ChatGPT leading the way and others catching up, AI tools are taking over everything from answering questions to ...

Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Crawl is a clever idea. It’s the first genuine attempt to attach a meter to data before it gets ...

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 ...

Several stakeholders support Cloudflare's Pay per Crawl because they believe original content should be protected and ...

Website bots could help publishers fight off traffic loss from AI crawling Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is blocking AI crawlers by default.

Cloudflare launches marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping their sites This article, originally posted in Japanese on 11:55 Jul 02, 2025, may contains some machine-translated ...

Cloudflare unveils a marketplace allowing websites to charge AI bots for scraping content, targeting OpenAI, Google, and others.

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 ...

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

Cloudflare’s marketplace vision carries potential far-reaching implications for online publishing and the broader information economy, though significant hurdles remain. For instance, encouraging AI ...

The permission and payment model marks a significant shift with major implications for the advertising and digital ecosystem. It blocks AI scrapers from accessing content from sites Cloudflare ...

The permission-based model announced today blocks AI scrapers from accessing content across millions of websites that Cloudflare protects -- about 24% of all sites across the internet.