Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape ...

In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...

Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.

Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.

Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.

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

Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit.

A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...

Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting ...

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered the ongoing Google June 2025 core update and how we are finally seeing some recoveries with the past helpful content ...

The delivery network through whose servers about a fifth of all internet traffic passes is blocking AI web crawlers ...