[nojs]

Charge site owners to protect the site from aggressive crawlers, charge crawlers/agents to bypass the protection. Like a good old fashioned protection racket

[paxys]

That's not what protection racket means. Cloudflare isn't the one building LLMs and scraping websites.

[josefresco]

I guess it would be if Cloudflare was operating the bots.

[mritchie712]

huh? they can block the bots

[abirch]

Usually the protection racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket) is when the people who will cause the destruction charge to prevent it from happening.

Paying a security guard isn't considered a protection racket, while paying a member of the mob so that nothing happens to my store is considered a protection racket.

[nojs]

What do you call it when the same security guard also gets paid by the attackers to let them in?

[tofuziggy]

Charge crawlers and pay site owners, and take a cut of course

[riedel]

Thanks for the tl;dr . Why is this blog post so long? Will they charge per token?