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Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their

Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s larger plan to give publishers greater control over how and when AI bots scrape their websites.

  • BrikoXOPMEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    As opposed to giving all that unencrypted traffic to Cloudflare and letting them make money from it?

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Idk what you mean, I was making a shit post. Cloudflare does tls termination?

      • BrikoXOPMEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Well, yes, that’s the whole point of their existence. How else would they be able to evaluate the traffic? They can read everything in plain text.

        • JackbyDevEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          I guess don’t know what all cloudflare does and doesn’t do.