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		542458 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta That's the site owner demanding payment via cloudflare, not cloudflare unilaterally deciding to charge money (as far as I can tell at least). https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ Looks like The Verge either set up an excessively tight pay-per-crawl policy or doesn't want IA scraping their stuff.

incoming1211 9 days ago [–]

Cloudflare enabled blocking by default. People were on X complaining about it.

thephyber 9 days ago | [–]

Blocking access to everyone or to scraping crawlers?

They have detailed stats about the behavior of all visitors, including how bot-like they are and how likely they are to scrape your (their users’) content.

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