| ▲ | nojs 3 days ago |
| Charge site owners to protect the site from aggressive crawlers, charge crawlers/agents to bypass the protection. Like a good old fashioned protection racket |
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| ▲ | paxys 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's not what protection racket means. Cloudflare isn't the one building LLMs and scraping websites. |
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| ▲ | josefresco 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I guess it would be if Cloudflare was operating the bots. |
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| ▲ | mritchie712 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | huh? they can block the bots | | |
| ▲ | abirch 3 days ago | parent [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | What do you call it when the same security guard also gets paid by the attackers to let them in? |
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| ▲ | tofuziggy 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Charge crawlers and pay site owners, and take a cut of course |
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| ▲ | riedel 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for the tl;dr . Why is this blog post so long? Will they charge per token? |
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