How Cloudflare Is Making AI Pay for Content
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While monetising agent/bot traffic sounds lucrative for the site owner, it’s also a cautionary sign how a service like Cloudflare that runs a major portion of the internet has unchecked leverage to become ‘Network Dada’ collecting ‘hafta’ to access what’s always been free.
A closed WWW and adulteration of bot traffic will likely speed up inventing a new internet exclusively for humans.