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Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access (blog.cloudflare.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/webdev@programming.dev
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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:

  1. Allow: Grant the crawler free access to content.
  2. Charge: Require payment at the configured, domain-wide price.
  3. 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.

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

what if youlre not trying to train ai? What if you just want to update a personal dashboard/archive?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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.

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