A New Internet Business Model?

Re:A New Internet Business Model? by nojs on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#45334997)

Charge site owners to protect the site from aggressive crawlers, charge crawlers/agents to bypass the protection. Like a good old fashioned protection racket

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by paxys on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:55AM (#45335233)

That's not what protection racket means. Cloudflare isn't the one building LLMs and scraping websites.

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by josefresco on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:48AM (#45335134)

I guess it would be if Cloudflare was operating the bots.

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by mritchie712 on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:53AM (#45335197)

huh? they can block the bots

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by abirch on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:25PM (#45335692)

Usually the protection racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket) is when the people who will cause the destruction charge to prevent it from happening.

Paying a security guard isn't considered a protection racket, while paying a member of the mob so that nothing happens to my store is considered a protection racket.

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by nojs on Monday September 22, 2025 @07:44PM (#45341045)

What do you call it when the same security guard also gets paid by the attackers to let them in?

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by tofuziggy on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:45AM (#45335075)

Charge crawlers and pay site owners, and take a cut of course

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Re:A New Internet Business Model? by riedel on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:49AM (#45335149)

Thanks for the tl;dr . Why is this blog post so long? Will they charge per token?

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