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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.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      To be fair that’s a separate issue. Ideally we should have something Cloudflare like but decentralized

  • JackbyDevEnglish
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    2 months ago

    How are they going to turn a profit if they can’t use copyrighted works OR scrape for free? 🥺

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      • JackbyDevEnglish
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        2 months ago

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

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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          2 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
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            2 months ago

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