Cloudflare launches pay-per-crawl. AI bots blocked by default. Websites set prices. Publishers get paid. $NET could be the toll booth for AI.
Cloudflare just flipped the switch on a new model for the internet. Starting July 1, 2025, every new domain using Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default. No scraping. No silent indexing. If an AI company wants access, it has to …