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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Just when cloudflare were starting to be the good guys by making AI crawlers pay...

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The only options when dealing with governments is comply or get out.

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  • Humm... Who are telling this to?

    If you're talking to businesses, if this were true, all the tax optimization and fraud would disappear overnight, I almost wish it were true.

    And if you're talking to citizens, how about labor organization, revolts, resistance?

    Either way, that looks awfully reductive

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

    I never trust that move. I'm fairly sure that they only do that so they can crawl themselves and sell the data.

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  • Oh, of course.

    But that'll help make AI more expensive to dev and lighten the load on smaller sites that are crumbling under the AI load.

    I hope cloudflare's competition makes that available too to make sure cloudflare doesn't have all the data and the leverage that goes with it.

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