Post Avzn4qAr5LukOBuKcC by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AvzZnhAa0mae8SGzFg by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
       2025-07-10T13:51:00Z
       
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       Many people blindly approved the Cloudflare proposal to make Cloudflare a toll booth on the Web (hiding under "make AI pay"): https://digitalmedusa.org/the-enclosure-of-the-open-web-and-the-open-internet-toll-booth-whats-behind-pay-by-crawl/
       
 (DIR) Post #Avzaecp6txWW0HTBRY by sebsauvage@framapiaf.org
       2025-07-10T14:00:32Z
       
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       @bortzmeyer Merci.C'est effectivement un point de vue très important.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvzhiQ6epASHOrQxge by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
       2025-07-10T15:19:41Z
       
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       @sebsauvage Farzaneh a souvent raison.
       
 (DIR) Post #Avzn4qAr5LukOBuKcC by davidhanzlik@mastodon.online
       2025-07-10T16:19:42Z
       
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       @bortzmeyer I mean Cloudflare's main business is stopping DDoS spam for a fee using its big firewall. It makes sense to me that they would offer a service to combat AI crawler spam for a fee too.Given that your average blog doesn't have the money, allowing the firewaller to charge the crawler seems like making the best of a bad situation.