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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by 542458 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:11PM (#45381411)
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.

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by incoming1211 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:46PM (#45381645)
Cloudflare enabled blocking by default. People were on X complaining about it.
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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta by thephyber on Thursday September 25, 2025 @09:53PM (#45381693)
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.

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