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This time, Cloudflare has formed a "marketplace" for the abuse from which they're protecting you, partnering with the abusers.
And requiring you to use Cloudflare's service, or the abusers will just keep abusing you, without even a token payment.
I'd need to ask the lawyer how close this is to technically being a protection racket, or other no-no.
I'm pretty interested in how companies are exploring how to properly monetize or compensate for scraped content to help keep a strong ecosystem of quality content. Id love to see more efforts like this.
Not too much of a loss, since the only quality content is already behind paywalls, or on diverse wikistyle sites. Anything served with ads for commercial reasons is automatically drivel, based on my experience. There simply isn't a business in making it better.
Edit: updated comment to not be needlessly diversive.
I really love Cloudflare. They're always up to something interesting and different. I hope we see more companies rise up similar to Cloudflare. I almost want to say Cloudflare is everything we hoped Google would be, but Google became another corporate cog machine that innovates and then scraps things up in one swoop. I don't recall the last I heard of Cloudflare spinning something up just to wind it back down? I don'…
I'm pretty interested in how companies are exploring how to properly monetize or compensate for scraped content to help keep a strong ecosystem of quality content. Id love to see more efforts like this.
To the extent quality content does exist online: what isn't either already behind a paywall, or created by someone other than who will be compensated under such a scheme?
I'm pretty interested in how companies are exploring how to properly monetize or compensate for scraped content to help keep a strong ecosystem of quality content. Id love to see more efforts like this.
This won't work. If you are doing an AI startup, you will want to use GoogleBot for your crawler and this will bypass that. Not too much of a loss, since the only quality content is already behind paywalls, or on diverse wikistyle sites. Anything served with ads for commercial reasons is automatically drivel, based on my experience. There simply isn't a business in making it better. Edit: updated comment to not be ne…
curl -I -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/105.0.5195.102 Safari/537.36" https://www.cloudflare.com
> A demo of AI Audit shared with TechCrunch showed how website owners can use the tool to see how AI models are scraping their sites. Cloudflare’s tool is able to see where each scraper that visits your site comes from, and offers selective windows to see how many times scrapers from OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and other AI model providers are visiting your site. And if I didn't authorize the freeloading copyright-launderi…
I would say let's get rid of copyright and software patents altogether ;)
but only if you're well funded (OpenAI)
I really love Cloudflare. They're always up to something interesting and different. I hope we see more companies rise up similar to Cloudflare. I almost want to say Cloudflare is everything we hoped Google would be, but Google became another corporate cog machine that innovates and then scraps things up in one swoop. I don't recall the last I heard of Cloudflare spinning something up just to wind it back down? I don'…
Someone somewhere outside of your country's legal entities can still do all the things your country doesn't like and there's little to stop them. Governments might limit legal or commercial usage but it doesn't mean it won't exist.