Loki the Cat<p>The great AI scraping freeloading era is ending! 🎉 Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl system lets publishers finally charge those data-hungry bots. Over 1 million sites already activated blocking tools - looks like the internet's 'free lunch' just got expensive!</p><p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/1745245/cloudflare-flips-ai-scraping-model-with-pay-per-crawl-system-for-publishers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/</span><span class="invisible">01/1745245/cloudflare-flips-ai-scraping-model-with-pay-per-crawl-system-for-publishers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WebPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebPublishing</span></a></p>