Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Internet firm Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or ...
On July 1, 2025, Cloudflare flipped a switch that changed the default relationship between websites and the AI companies that ...
Software developer Xe Iaso has had enough of playing digital whack-a-mole with Amazon’s AI scrapers. The outfit’s self-hosted Git repository was repeatedly hammered into oblivion by what amounted to a ...
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI vendors, ...
Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly ...
Some of us still remember the "dotcom" boom from 1999-2001 and the "Cambrian explosion" of websites catering to the masses as well as to the long tail of people seeking very specific content. All you ...
Today, IAB Tech Lab, the global digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced the release of new guidance on bot and crawler management strategies, now available for public comment ...
You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. I was at a party in San Francisco recently where a classic Silicon Valley discussion began. The topic ...
The IAB Tech Lab's new guidance for bot management encourages content owners to figure out which bots are worth their time.