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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that the company will begin protecting content publishers from AI scraping. Prince argues that the internet's business model is shifting as AI companies consume data without providing referral traffic. Cloudflare aims to block unauthorized scraping and potentially facilitate a system where AI companies must pay for access to high-quality data.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced "Bot Fight Mode," a feature intended to reduce CPU cycles and bandwidth wasted by malicious bots to save the environment. While framed as a climate initiative, the tool grants Cloudflare more power to identify and block traffic at the gateway level. This move follows the company's history of de-platforming specific websites.
