Should website operators be paid by AI bots?
So Cloudflare is now helping websites?
Sources:
https://www.seroundtable.com/cloudflare-block-google-ai-overviews-39718.html
https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/press-releases/2024/cloudflare-helps-content-creators-regain-control-of-content-from-ai/
https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compens ation/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/residential-proxy-bot-detection-using-machine-learning/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monitoring-machine-learning-models-for-bot-detection/
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html#name-the-user-a gent line
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1119498/cloudflare-will-now-by-default-block-ai-bots-from-crawling-its-clients-websites
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
https://www.404media.co/websites-are-blocking-the-wrong-ai-scrapers-because-ai-companies-keep-making-new-ones/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-wit h-a-single-click/
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot-score/
https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-launches-a-marketplace-that-lets-websites-charge-ai-bots-for-scraping/
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DXxyqAVVYnxM
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare-to-block-ai-firms-from-scraping-content-without-consent.html
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