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Cloudflare moves to end free, endless AI scraping with one-click blocking

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Cloudflare says new tools will help end the era of endless AI scraping by giving sites the power to block bots in one click.

The rise of generative AI has made it harder to value content, the company says.

Sites can now use the tools to identify which content that bots scan most, so that sites can charge bots to scrape their most valuable content.

The tools could set a new industry standard for how content is scraped online.

Cloudflare 's one -click solution to block the Googlebot from scraping will likely soon emerge, says Prince.

Prince expects "that Google 's practices over the long term won't be sustainable" " One way or another, Google is going to get forced to be more fine-grained here," he says.

Prince: "There can also be a legal solution" that can rely on contract law.

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