Cloudflare - SiliconSnark

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Cloudflare Gives AI Crawlers a Bouncer. The Banner Ad Checks IDs.

Cloudflare’s September 15 bot rules give publishers more control. Mixed crawlers make discovery awkward, and a blocked request still isn’t a paycheck.

SiliconSnark's robot inspects a giant meter as AI answer machines pull articles from a crowded digital newsstand.

Cloudflare Turned AI Search Into a Metered Utility for Publishers

Cloudflare wants AI search to stop freeloading on the open web. The idea is smart, the incentives are ugly, and the meter has finally appeared.

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Guides

Cloudflare Connect 2025: Snarky Preview of the Vegas Tech Extravaganza

Cloudflare Connect 2025: Keynotes, product launches, AI reveals, and all the Vegas tech drama you can’t miss.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Drones Replace Fireworks, Meta Still Humorless, and Florida Man Sells Quantum Nonsense

This week in tech satire: AI gets paywalled, fireworks go drone-mode, and Meta still can’t take a joke.

Cartoon robot judge with pixel sunglasses holds a “robots.txt” scroll, blocking AI spiders from crawling a fiery Cloudflare firewall.

Cloudflare to AI: You Shall Not Crawl (Unless You Pay, of Course)

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, pitching it as a revolution for publisher control—two years after letting the internet get scraped to oblivion.