“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

Abstract: Web scraping, often known as web crawling, is employing software to gather data from websites automatically. It is a procedure that is very crucial in domains like business intelligence in ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

I'm on a mission to review 1,000 marketing software tools and share my findings with over 100,000 small business owners worldwide. In an age where digital tools can make or break your business, I’m ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

AI is not magic. The tools that generate essays or hyper-realistic videos from simple user prompts can only do so because they have been trained on massive data sets. That data, of course, needs to ...

I'm on a mission to review 1,000 marketing software tools and share my findings with over 100,000 small business owners worldwide. In an age where digital tools can make or break your business, I’m ...

As time goes on, just saying 'no' to AI feels more and more futile. However, Cloudflare is announcing a few more tools for your anti-AI arsenal that put some of the power back in your hands.

The move could reshape how LLM developers gather information — and force new deals between creators and AI companies. Cloudflare has reversed its block on AI-crawling from optional to default, ...