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 ...

Publishers are now fighting back against unauthorized AI web scraping, abandoning polite requests for aggressive technical ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

Cloudflare thinks it has an answer to the problem. The company is debuting a product that can disable AI-scraping bots from accessing your data. There are two downsides: you have to be a Cloudflare ...

There’s bad news for publishers in the new ToolBit AI User Agent Index. Scraping growth accelerated, doubling in volume per website from Q3 to Q4 2024. Scrapes per page more than tripled, and there ...