Tech giants are rewriting the rules on web scraping, blaming unnamed third parties for disregarding robots.txt, and seemingly claiming the right to reuse anything posted anywhere for AI. Now, ...

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’ Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ...

The internet was designed to make information free and easy for anyone to access. But as the amount of personal information online has grown, so too have the risks. Last weekend, a nightmare scenario ...

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites. When he's not battling bugs and robots in ...

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 ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Tuesday, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced that it will block AI bots from scraping ...

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 ...

Web scraping is the process of using automated software, like bots, to extract structured data from websites. There are many applications for web scraping, including monitoring product retail prices, ...