Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its “pay-per-crawl” ...

Meta, recently rebranded from Facebook, today announced the expansion of its bug-bounty and data-bounty programs to reward valid reports of so-called scraping bugs and scraped databases with monetary ...

Meta is expanding its bug bounty program to reward researchers who report data scraping. The change will allow researchers to report both bugs that could enable scraping activity, as well as ...

Hoping this works, both to stop the scraping, but it occurs to me that this will expose and sink the path-to-profitability issue for these companies sooner rather than later. I expect CloudFlare to be ...