Cloudflare's new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BrikoX@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/cloudflares-new-marketplace-will-let-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/

Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s larger plan to give publishers greater control over how and when AI bots scrape their websites.

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fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
As long as you route ALL your traffic through Cloudflare…

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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  To be fair that’s a separate issue. Ideally we should have something Cloudflare like but decentralized
  
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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
How are they going to turn a profit if they can’t use copyrighted works OR scrape for free? 🥺

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- BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  As opposed to giving all that unencrypted traffic to Cloudflare and letting them make money from it?
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Idk what you mean, I was making a shit post. Cloudflare does tls termination?
    
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burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This seems like a great idea, charge those shitty scrapers!

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Honestly that’s not the worst idea I’ve heard

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