Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing AI companies to pay for the content they’ve been taking for free.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    They aren’t putting up blocks to protect us. They just want their cut of the profits. I’m sure they will come to an arrangement that benefits Cloudflare and the AI behemoths, but still screws us all over somehow.

    • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Exactly, it’s just a shakedown.

      Man… Cloudflare’s PR department has been moving mountains over the past 5 years. In my mind their brand still only barely ranks above the Khmer Rouge.