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2025-07-01

Cloudflare declares war on AI crawlers - and the stakes couldn't be higher

Get out of my website! Cloudflare, one of the world's largest Internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default. [...]

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2025-07-01

Cloudflare experiment will block AI bot scrapers unless they pay a fee

Cloudflare has rolled out a couple of new measures meant to keep AI bot crawlers at bay. To start with, every new domain customer that signs up with the company to manage their website traffic will no [...]

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2025-03-21

Cloudflare unveils AI maze to trap unwanted web crawlers

Instead of simply blocking unwanted AI crawlers, Cloudflare has introduced a new defense method that lures them into a maze of AI-generated content, designed to waste their time and resources.<br / [...]

Match Score: 88.10

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2025-03-14

God of War's 20th anniversary celebration gives you Kratos' most badass throwback skin

Sony is celebrating God of War's 20th anniversary with goodies found in digital Norse mythological worlds, an LA art studio and your dusty old record player. The highlight is Kratos' positiv [...]

Match Score: 86.25

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2025-04-02

Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenl [...]

Match Score: 83.98

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2025-03-20

Why the Open Web Is at Risk in the Age of AI Crawlers

The Internet has always been a space for free expression, collaboration, and the open exchange of ideas. However, with persistent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), AI-powered web crawlers have [...]

Match Score: 83.92

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2025-07-01

Cloudflare aims to save the World Wide Web by blocking AI crawlers without explicit consent

Cloudflare introduces a consent-based approach for AI crawlers, giving website operators more power over their content. Media companies and platforms hope it will create fairer terms for original cont [...]

Match Score: 83.41

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2025-06-20

Cloudflare CEO says people aren't checking AI chatbots' source links

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has reve [...]

Match Score: 70.20

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2025-05-06

Gears of War is coming to PlayStation for the first time on August 26

Yet another high-profile Xbox franchise is making the leap to PlayStation. While Halo isn't yet making the transition, Gears of War is about to join the likes of Forza Horizon 5 in crossing the [...]

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2025-07-02

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers on your website - and even force them to pay you

Cloudflare is giving creators control over their content, allowing them to charge or block AI web crawlers from accessing their sites. [...]

Match Score: 50.05