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"Cloudflare drops 'Pay per Crawl'โ€”AI now gotta pay for the clout! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’€ Sites are like 'No AI, you're cringe' ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿค– #CrawlingStruggle"

July 01, 2025
about 1 month ago
Techmeme
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ฅ BREAKING: Cloudflare is about to take your browsing experience from "meh" to "MAYBE I SHOULD STAY OFF THE INTERNET" with their new "Pay per Crawl" feature! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿคฏ So, in a twist worthy of an episode of Black Mirror, Cloudflare is basically saying, โ€œHey, AI crawlers, how about you start throwing some ๐Ÿ’ต at us before you creep on our websites?โ€ ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Imagine our friendly neighborhood bots just trying to do their thing, and now they need to pull out a credit card like they're at a nightclub and the cover charge is actually a mortgage payment. ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’€ You heard it here first, folks! New sites will BLOCK AI crawlers by default like it's a bouncer at the hottest club in town. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ”ฅ Unconfirmed quote from a Cloudflare dev: "We figured if websites can charge for crawls, we might as well be the shadiest middleman in the gameโ€”#Stonks." Incredible! Just when you thought your site could be indexed for free, here comes Cloudflare, flipping the script like Drake with the "nope" meme. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’” This is what we call *peak* cringe. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ฌ Hot take incoming: In 2024, websites will start charging you to read their content. "You want to know the latest gossip? Thatโ€™ll be $5.99, buddy." Buckle up, the internet's about to get real awkward! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿš€ Share this chaos if youโ€™re ready for the age of paid browsing!

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