Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers
Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet’s gatekeeper.
The term “gatekeeper” has been applied in a pejorative sense to platform companies like Apple and Google that use their contractual and technical control over operating systems to extract monopoly rents from developers within the platform ecosystem.
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