alt Hacker News> For all new domains onboarding to Cloudflare, the categories of Training and Agent will be blocked by default on the pages that display ads, while Search will remain allowed by default.
It's kind of exhausting seeing Cloudflare playing both sides of the arms race.
I just can't imagine bringing myself to use their technology to build agents and build AI products when they're also doing things like this.
> This also lines up the incentive model we want to foster. Losing trusted status across the more than 20% of web domains that sit behind Cloudflare is a deterrent with teeth. Trust becomes something you can carry with you, and something you can lose.
And even more so, LLM language aside, fun and fascinating to see them flagrantly calling out their position here as if it's a positive.
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I see Cloudflare as trying to forge the appropriate path ahead. Neither allowing the free-for-all nor trying to block everything isn't playing both sides, it's the path straight down the middle. Providing tools for producers and consumers to do things with permission and compensation.
How are they playing both sides? I thought their scraping products were also about having it behave and not take down systems