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Cloud flare taking a strong anti ai scraping stance. Then turning around and acquiring an AI hosting service also feels contradictory

Cloudflare literally offers a paid scraping API as one of its services.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api...

Buying an AI company when you have a monopoly on scraping most of the internet seems like good business sense.

Cloudflare is also big on serverless on the edge (where the edge is their cdn), including AI inference

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