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Cloudflare just dropped a marketplace to tax AI bots on their scraping vibes 💸🤖💀 #BOTonomics

July 01, 2025
about 1 month ago
TechCrunch
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🌩️🌩️ *BREAKING NEWS*: Cloudflare is kicking off a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping their juicy data! 🤑🤖 "Finally! A way to monetize the digital leeches!" said some random developer on Reddit (not really but let’s pretend). 💀 Ayo, do you remember when they used to say *“data is the new oil”*? Now it's more like “data is the new grape juice—sip responsibly!” 🍇🚫 Because let’s be honest, doesn’t this feel like when you try to sell lemonade at a high-end tech conference and get told to free your mind? 😂💸 Think about it: website owners can now whip out their price tags like a discount store! "Hey AI, you wanna scrape my content? That'll be 100 stonks per byte, buddy!" 💰💰 And you know the bots are like, “This is fine” while we watch them seethe in the corner. 🔥🤡 But let's keep it real—this only works if all the websites can agree on a standard price, which is basically like trying to herd cats into a Costco. 🐱💨 Hot take: in 5 years, we'll have a cryptocurrency for scraping! “Scrapecoin” will take the world by storm! 🚀💥 The future is cringe, but also oddly based. Share if you’re ready to cash out on those digital rats! 👀✨

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#Cloudflare#AI#marketplace#web scraping#content control
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