Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
Pay per crawl grants domain owners full control over their monetization strategy. They can define a flat, per-request price across their entire site. Publishers will then have three distinct options for a crawler:
- Allow: Grant the crawler free access to content.
- Charge: Require payment at the configured, domain-wide price.
- Block: Deny access entirely, with no option to pay.
Although this is old news, I still found it interesting. Also, I like the "AI Labyrinth" feature of Cloudflare to block AI bots.
7 Comments
rimu@piefed.social · 12 pts · 188d
Cloudflare seems to live in a world where AI scrapers are ethical and lawful.
Dojan@pawb.social · 5 pts · 188d
And apparently profitable. These companies are essentially buying their shit based on clout, not actual possessed monetary value. I’m struggling to see how that could translate into whatever system Cloudflare thinks they will engage with.
AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 187d
Cloudflare's business model is dealing with unethical and unlawful bots. They can pour money into the arms race with "AI" companies and win. If they can't their service isn't valuable.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 187d
PPC actually sounds quite reasonable
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 1 pts · 187d
Personally I only go for ER PPC.
cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 187d
what if youlre not trying to train ai? What if you just want to update a personal dashboard/archive?
Hippy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 187d
Well, cockmushroom, then you're building a pretty expensive dashboard. I still don't see how they are going to differentiate between normal browsing and bot crawling. I don't think that's an exact science.