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The Register: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

Aug 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/ Source: The Register Title: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Feedly Summary: But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language…

The Cloudflare Blog: The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-ai-crawl-control/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control Feedly Summary: Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Cloudflare’s launch of AI Crawl Control,…

The Cloudflare Blog: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-crawler-traffic-by-purpose-and-industry/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: A deeper look at AI crawlers: breaking down traffic by purpose and industry Feedly Summary: We are extending AI-related insights on Cloudflare Radar with new industry-focused data and a breakdown of bot traffic by purpose, such as training or user action. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

The Cloudflare Blog: Welcome to AI Week 2025

Aug 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-ai-week-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Welcome to AI Week 2025 Feedly Summary: We’re seeing AI fundamentally change how people work across every industry. Customer support agents can respond to ten times the tickets. Software engineers are reviewers of AI generated code instead AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details the…

The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

Slashdot: Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1535248/nearly-100000-chatgpt-conversations-were-searchable-on-google?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant privacy concern regarding nearly 100,000 publicly shared conversations from OpenAI’s ChatGPT that were indexed by Google. It highlights the potential risks involved when users share conversations, revealing a…

The Register: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/perplexity_ai_crawlers_accused_data_raids/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges Feedly Summary: Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites’ no-crawl directives.……

The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Cloud Blog: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs

Jul 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/how-jina-ai-built-its-100-billion-token-web-grounding-system-with-cloud-run-gpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Jina AI built its 100-billion-token web grounding system with Cloud Run GPUs Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: The Jina AI Reader is a specialized tool that transforms raw web content from URLs or local files into a clean, structured, and LLM-friendly format. In this post, Han Xiao details…

Slashdot: Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots

Jul 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/2257245/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the alarming discovery of over 240 browser extensions that have exploited users’ browsers to scrape sensitive data without their consent. This incident highlights substantial privacy and security implications,…

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