Cloudflare announced Tuesday it will allow customers to block or charge fees for web crawlers deployed to scrape their websites and data on behalf of AI systems. In a blog on its corporate website, Will Allen, Cloudflare’s vice president of product, and Simon Newton, an engineer manager, said the company is establishing a new system…
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AI, Web Scraping and the Transformation of Data Privacy: What the EDPB’s Rulings Mean for Businesses
Web scraping is no longer just about collecting raw data. AI transforms this data, embedding it into machine learning models that can generate insights, predict behaviors and even infer new information about individuals in ways that were never intended when the data was first made public. The post AI, Web Scraping and the Transformation of…
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Navigating the New Era of AI Traffic: How to Identify and Block AI Scrapers
In the not-so-distant past, webmasters faced challenges from bots like Google’s search spiders, which diligently scanned websites to index content and provide the best search results for users. Fast forward to today, and we are witnessing a new breed of bot: Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude. These AI models are not just…