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 ...

Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step ...

In today’s digital ecosystem, web scraping (the automated extraction of data from a website) is a double-edged sword — simultaneously driving innovation and attracting controversy. With the advent of ...

Barracuda research reveals the extent of data scraping bots Not all bots are bad, but many extract huge amounts of data without permission These "gray bots" can be highly aggressive, report warns New ...

Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month according to ...

In February, the online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly three million photographs of different species, started to receive millions of hits to its website every day — a much ...

In a nutshell: A recent report by Akamai estimates that 42 percent of overall web traffic is generated by bots, with 65 percent of these bots having clearly malicious intent. Akamai's study primarily ...

While most people have heard of web scraping, far fewer likely realize just how widespread the practice actually is. As technology has grown incrementally, professionals from various industries have ...