Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
by 542458 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:11PM
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That's the site owner demanding payment via cloudflare, not cloudflare unilaterally deciding to charge money (as far as I can tell at least).
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
Looks like The Verge either set up an excessively tight pay-per-crawl policy or doesn't want IA scraping their stuff.
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
by incoming1211 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:46PM
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Cloudflare enabled blocking by default. People were on X complaining about it.
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
by thephyber on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:53PM
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Blocking access to everyone or to scraping crawlers?
They have detailed stats about the behavior of all visitors, including how bot-like they are and how likely they are to scrape your (their users’) content.
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
by stingraycharles on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:14PM
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Cloudflare offers a service to website owners to do that, yes. It’s the owners’ decision if they want to monetize on the content.
Is it that bad that Cloudflare offers people these choices?
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:01PM
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Not restricted to CF
https://web.archive.org/web/20250826113041if_/https://www.in...
Cloudflare not only blocking IA but asking for money on behalf of the website operator, as a "service"
https://web.archive.org/web/20250920180605if_/https://www.th...