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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by andy99 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:29PM (#45066979)
> But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots?

A paywall.

In reality, what some want is to get all the benefits of having their content on the open internet while still controlling who gets to access it. That is the root cause here.

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by littlecranky67 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:32PM (#45067033)
This. We need to get rid of the ad-supported free internet economy. If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.

We need micropayments going forward, Lightning (Bitcoin backend) could be the solution.

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by rustc on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:38PM (#45067113)
> If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.

What about licenses like CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Non Commercial)?

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notpushkin on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:17PM (#45068234)
What about them? As we can see scrapers don’t care about copyright at all, so public licenses don’t really matter to them either.
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notatoad on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:34PM (#45067053)
Which is really all that cloudflare is building here that people are mad about. It’s a way to give bots access to paywalled content.
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by positiveblue on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:45PM (#45067204)
Where everyone needs a cloudflare account to be able to pay*
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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notatoad on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:51PM (#45067278)
“Everyone” in this context being bot operators who want to access websites who have decided to use cloudflare to block unauthenticated bot traffic.

Which is not everyone.

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