Data has become the cornerstone of modern business strategy, helping companies stay ahead in competitive industries. Among the many ways to gather data, web scraping has emerged as an indispensable ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...

Tech giants are rewriting the rules on web scraping, blaming unnamed third parties for disregarding robots.txt, and seemingly claiming the right to reuse anything posted anywhere for AI. Now, ...

If you're worried about AI bots scraping your website content to train AI, Cloudflare can help you fight back. The company, which claims to proxy about 20% of the web, has introduced a new tool that ...

Meta has dropped its lawsuit against Israeli web-scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case a few weeks ago. The social networking giant has a history of waging war against ...

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default unless they receive direct permission from site owners. This new policy changes ...

Cloudflare said it would block artificial intelligence crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation by default. The cybersecurity and network services company on Tuesday said website ...

Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare is launching a suite of tools that could help shift the power dynamic between AI companies and the websites they crawl for data. Today it’s giving all of its ...