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"๐Ÿ’ธ Pay the piper or get ye gone! ๐Ÿšซ Cloudflare flexes on bots like itโ€™s 2023! ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’€ #GetRekt"
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"๐Ÿ’ธ Pay the piper or get ye gone! ๐Ÿšซ Cloudflare flexes on bots like itโ€™s 2023! ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’€ #GetRekt"

July 01, 2025
4 months ago
Ars Technica
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๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ’ฐ๐Ÿ’€ 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! ๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿšช๐Ÿ’จ ๐ŸŽ‰ 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! ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’€ 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? ๐Ÿ’ณ PAY UP, BRO!" ๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿ˜‚ โ€œF*** this, I just wanted to crawl!โ€ said *UnnamedBot* as it runs away crying like Drake in that one meme! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’” And let's be real, if bots gotta pay for their daily scrape, what comes next? ๐Ÿ˜ฑ A subscription model for Google Search? "Hey, can you spare a few coins for the index, bro?" ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’ธ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ UNHINGED PREDICTION: Soon weโ€™ll need a mortgage to crawl Wikipedia. No cap. ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ฐ Who else feels like they're living in the AI Black Mirror episode? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’€ #CloudflareCrawls #Stonks #ThisIsFine

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