It’s a bit alarming how cloudflare is establishing itself as arbiter of all things bots…both on blocking and allowing.
Doesn’t seem healthy for the internet as a whole
Doesn’t seem healthy for the internet as a whole
While I can understand why you would be alarmed, I can point to almost two decades of lamenting on this forum about how we need better ways of rewarding content creators than ads. Well, this is it.
Moreover, these products weren't built in a vacuum. Most threads about Anthropic and OpenAI have complaints about how these companies were built on stolen content. There's a reality we have to face here and we can't have it both ways.
Cloudflare turnstile is a pop up. This product is pervasive surveillance. It having a cf logo doesn't change that or ameliorate the many many abuses that two decades have shown are part and parcel.
And at the same time, they're paying SEO experts to make that same content easier to be ingested by systems (Google and other Search Engines) which use it for their own AI offerings.
Are you going to be able to make your online content available to Google Search but unavailable for Google Gemini?
Until somewhere down the line. Like when half of Spain gets cut off due to an arbitrary block on a consolidated service facade...
They are advantageous to leverage in certain situations but essential they are not. We're used to, in the technology industry, looking for or creating problems to solve with services we are aware of. Moving back to necessity and need, do we really? Are we being objective? Most of the time, no.
We have antitrust regulations for such things.
I genuinely don't understand these generic complaint comments.
Are you complaining that they offer too much? Or do you believe nobody is offering similar services?
Just want to make sure I understand the real issue here, because that sounds like a lot of fearmongering to me.
where bots run rampant ?
trust me as an operator - I'm grateful Cloudflare exists.