[jeroenhd]

Most scrapers are terrible and useless. Blocking them makes complete sense. The website owners are the ones configuring the blacklists. Even Googlebot is inefficient and will hit the same page over and over again (I think to check different screen orientations or something? It's stupid). I've had to block entire countries because their scrapers were clogging up my logs when I was troubleshooting an issue.

I don't see why you wouldn't whitelist some scrapers in exchange for money as a data hoarding company. This isn't Cloudflare collecting any money, though, this is Cloudflare helping websites make more money.