Cloudflare wants AI business to pay up.
The cloud facilities service provider, which powers around 20% of the web, is releasing a new experiment that would let publishers charge AI companies whenever their bots scrape a site.
Its called Pay per Crawl, and it might improve how material is accessed and generated income from online.Today on A Technology NewsRooms Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Max Zeff dig into Cloudflares huge swing, why its a natural next step after a year of laying groundwork for bot-blocking tools, and whether the plan to sit at the center of a pay-for-content procedure is genius or simply wishful thinking.Listen to the complete episode to hear more about: How ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, went viral thanks to backlash from former prosecutor Pam Bondi.
ICEBlock is now one of the most-downloaded totally free iPhone apps in the U.S.Why Figmas S-1 filing could set the phase for a blockbuster IPO, and what its 48% revenue growth states about demand for design tools.Equity will be back next week, and for those of you in the U.S., take pleasure in the long vacation weekend!Equity is A Technology NewsRooms flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts.
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