Patreon Blocks AI Crawlers, Demands Consent and Pay
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training bots at the network level, moving past robots.txt requests that crawlers were already ignoring.
Articles Tagged "Web Scraping"
Suno Hack Exposes 2 Million Scraped YouTube Songs
A hacker leaked Suno source code showing exactly how it scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and a million hours of podcasts for AI training data.
Best AI Web Scraping Tools 2026 - 6 Tools Ranked
Firecrawl, Crawl4AI, Apify, Jina Reader, ScrapeGraphAI, and ScrapingBee compared by speed, cost, and LLM-readiness.
Cloudflare Launches Pay Per Crawl for AI Bots
Cloudflare opens a private beta charging AI crawlers $0.01 or more per page using HTTP 402 and Ed25519-signed request headers, with new sites blocking AI training by default on September 15.
