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Cloudflare Debuts 'Permission-Based Approach' to AI Scraping

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Cloudflare has unveiled a new AI scraping policy that will enable website owners themselves to ‘decide which crawlers to allow.’ Photo Credit: Omar Lopez-Rincon Bad news for artificial intelligence giants: Cloudflare has officially updated its AI scraping defaults in an effort to halt the “use of original content without permission.” The self-described “leading connectivity cloud company” revealed the move – and the resulting “new business model…
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Cloudflare takes a major step in the protection of web content by activating by default the blocking of artificial intelligence cliplers. This measure aims to prevent unauthorized access to news and other sites without permission or compensation.A "Pay Per Crawl" system to monetize access to the content ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App…

The US Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare now requires artificial intelligence companies to obtain prior authorisation before exploring web content. This historic measure, effective immediately, is disrupting the automated extraction practices that have been fuelling IA models for years. A turning point for the digital economy More than one million site owners are already using the anti-robot tools offered by Californian company since Sept…

– This article contains affiliate links – So that's what we call a master hit! Cloudflare has just released an announcement that will shake the entire AI ecosystem. Since July 1, 2025, the company blocks by default all the d的IA crawlers who are trying to suck up the content of the sites that it protects. It was time for someone to kick in the anthill! Thus, Cloudflare, which manages about 20% of the world's internet traffic, has just transformed…

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Numerama broke the news in on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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