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Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers ...
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A new web crawler launched by Meta last month is quietly scraping the internet for AI training data

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...
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Website bots could help publishers fight off traffic loss from AI crawling

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said this week it’s launching a system to block bots from scraping clients’ sites or at least allow them to charge AI companies for access. These AI bots ...
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Meta AI crawlers dominate 52% of web bot traffic, report reveals

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly suggests AI crawlers made up almost 80% of all AI bot traffic in recent months – with crawlers from Meta making up more than half of total traffic ...
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Cloudflare Just Changed How AI Crawlers Scrape the Internet-at-Large; Permission-Based Approach Makes Way for A New Business Model

Empowers leading publishers and AI companies to stop the scraping and use of original content without permission SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) (NYSE: NET), the leading ...