Tag: x402 Protocol
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Cloudflare’s New AI Crawler Defaults Are a Concrete Step Toward 402
Cloudflare is changing the way we get information. It is doing it quietly, one settings migration at a time. On September 15, Cloudflare began changing the recommended setting for AI training crawlers from Block to “Disallow AI Training” — a distinction that lets major search crawlers such as Applebot, Googlebot and Bingbot continue indexing a…
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Cloudflare is Helping to Paywall the Internet
Cloudflare is Helping to Paywall the Internet The 1990s Internet made information free. AI agents are making it billable. Since the mid-1990s, when the commercial Internet took off, the dominant bargain was simple: content for attention. You browsed, you clicked, you saw ads — and the publisher got paid by advertisers. Most information was free…