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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Cloudflare trying to stop AI crawling somehow!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/

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That uses proof of work rather than just detecting and blocking the bots.

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