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"πŸ’Έ Pay the piper or get ye gone! 🚫 Cloudflare flexes on bots like it’s 2023! πŸ€–πŸ’€ #GetRekt"
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"πŸ’Έ Pay the piper or get ye gone! 🚫 Cloudflare flexes on bots like it’s 2023! πŸ€–πŸ’€ #GetRekt"

July 01, 2025
about 1 month ago
Ars Technica
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πŸ”πŸ’°πŸ’€ BREAKING NEWS: Cloudflare JUST dropped a BOMBSHELL on all you AI crawlers out there! It's like they threw a BBQ and invited all the bots to PAY UP or get the heck out! πŸ€‘πŸšͺπŸ’¨ πŸŽ‰ Welcome to the "Pay-Per-Crawl" dystopia, where data is the new gold, and the only thing more expensive than down bad tech stocks is your website's info! πŸ€–πŸ’ΈπŸ’€ Brace yourself, because the likes of AdWeek, BuzzFeed, and Fortune are about to become the ultimate gatekeepers for your precious AI soul! Imagine crawling into a site only to face a pop-up saying, "Wanna scrape? πŸ’³ PAY UP, BRO!" πŸ€‘πŸ˜‚ β€œF*** this, I just wanted to crawl!” said *UnnamedBot* as it runs away crying like Drake in that one meme! πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ’” And let's be real, if bots gotta pay for their daily scrape, what comes next? 😱 A subscription model for Google Search? "Hey, can you spare a few coins for the index, bro?" πŸš€πŸ’Έ πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ UNHINGED PREDICTION: Soon we’ll need a mortgage to crawl Wikipedia. No cap. πŸ“šπŸ’° Who else feels like they're living in the AI Black Mirror episode? πŸ˜‚πŸ’€ #CloudflareCrawls #Stonks #ThisIsFine

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#Cloudflare#web scraping#AI crawlers#content monetization#pay-per-crawl
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