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Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If they could stop blocking real users at the same time they block AI crawlers, that would be nice.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I absolutely hate cloudflare because they always block me whenever I visit a site while connected to any VPN server on Proton, regardless of country. Even when I'm not connected to a VPN I sometimes have trouble with them deciding my connection is suspicious despite not having anything that should trigger it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Make a dummy Google Account, and log into it when on the VPN. Having an ad history avoids the blocks usually. (Note: only do this if your browsing is not activist related/etc)

    Also, if it's image captchas that never end, switch to the accessibility option for the captcha.

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