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its-kostyatoday at 12:00 AM1 replyview on HN

Cloudflare has been trying to mediate publishers & AI companies. If publishers are behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare's bot detection stops scrapers at the request of publishers, the publishers can allow their data to be scraped (via this end point) for a price. It creates market scarcity. I don't believe the target audience is you and me. Unless you own a very popular blog that AI companies would pay you for.


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PeterStuertoday at 7:34 AM

Next step will be their default "free" anti-bot denying all but their own bot. They know full well nearly nobody changes the default.