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Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

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[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 13 points 1 month ago

No, the fact it's technically legal doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them.

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Yup. "Legal" just means the government won't punish you.

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