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Cloudflare says that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, competitors are behind 63% of attacks, and 5% are self‑inflicted.
Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
In a series of pointed X posts, Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince lays out a bold new policy that treats AI companies like ...
Cloudflare recently announced a new "pay-per-crawl" system aimed at pushing back against AI companies that continue to scrape ...
Cloudflare faced an outage Monday due to issues with its 1.1.1.1 public resolver, causing website disruptions. The company is working on a fix.
Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit ...
More than 200 pirate domains blocked A fresh wave of site blocking has hit the UK’s already long list of outlawed pirate domains, but this time there’s an unexpected new enforcer. Cloudflare, normally ...
Cloudflare, which powers many of the world’s most prominent websites, made waves last week by introducing a default setting for new customers that would block bots that artificial intelligence firms ...
Cloudflare urges Google to let publishers block AI Overviews without affecting search rankings or SEO performance.
A week or so ago, Cloudflare announced it would block AI bots by default and offer a new pay per crawl initiative to ...
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
The Impact of Cloudflare's AI Bot Block Cloudflare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure providers, has launched a new AI Bot Block feature, heralded as a potential ‘game-changer' for content ...