Eve Ventually<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/cloudflare-lets-sites-block-ai-crawlers-with-one-click/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">24/09/cloudflare-lets-sites-block-ai-crawlers-with-one-click/</span></a> (not a new article)</p><blockquote><p>All this unrestricted AI scraping "poses a risk to an open Internet," Cloudflare warned, proposing that its tools could set a new industry standard for how content is scraped online.</p></blockquote><p>Arguably, Cloudflare poses at least as much threat to the open Internet as unauthorized LLM scrapers. Everything “protected” by Cloudflare is inherently no longer part of the “open Internet.”</p><p>New sites keep going dark to the people and devices that can’t get around Cloudflare.</p><p>And, hey, I’m all about banishing OpenAI and Anthropic’s scrapers to the hell dimension but let’s not cut blind people and lower powered devices from the internet to do it.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CloudFlare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudFlare</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AnthropicAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnthropicAI</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a></p>