Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” by default according to an announcement on Tuesday.

Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...

Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI vendors, ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

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The rise of AI-generated content, also known as synthetic media, has mostly caused problems: It helps spread misinformation, steal from artists, and erode trust in what we see online. However, ...

3D render of a webcrawling cyber-spider. Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of ...

Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers. The outfit’s self-hosted Git repository was repeatedly hammered into oblivion by what amounted to a ...

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the ...

Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

July 1 (UPI) --Cloudflare announced it will begin blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from "accessing content without permission or compensation," from all of its clients beginning on Tuesday.