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- Sep 25, 2026
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The Text-Only Version Of Your Website Strips Out The Wrong Layer via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic (opens the original)
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Strip the visual layer and a machine can still use a website. Strip the structure, as markdown does, and it can only read about it. The post The Text-Only Version Of Your Website Strips Out The Wrong Layer appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point (opens the original)
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On August 20, I published a page arguing that a website’s robots.txt and its actual enforcement are two different things, and I used my website as the example of getting it wrong. My robots.txt had spent months welcoming Bytespider by name, long after I would have chosen otherwise, and I only caught it while writing that page. The next day, Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync, a product that fixes exactly that. Bot Preference Sync writes your robots.txt for you. Whatever bot policy you set
Everyone Is Negotiating With Google While Meta Reads The Web For Free (opens the original)
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I think we’re aiming the machine-access fight at the wrong company. Publishers are deciding whether to block Google’s AI or license to it. Reddit spent part of its July 30 earnings call on exactly that question, and every move at that table gets covered like a summit. Meanwhile, the biggest machine reader of the web belongs to Meta. It reads more than the bots everyone blocks, it sends almost nothing back, and nobody seems to be discussing whether Zuckrawlers should be blocked. DataDome, a bot-d
Cloudflare: Machine Traffic Could Hit 1,000x Human Traffic In 5 Years (opens the original)
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The single largest AI crawler on my website over the past day was not an AI crawler. It arrived roughly 1,500 times under Common Crawl’s name; it sent back nothing, and what it wanted was my SSH keys. Cloudflare’s Chief Financial Officer, Thomas Seifert, told analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that “if the current trends continue, we think in five years, non-human traffic will be as much as 1,000 times as much as human traffic.” Then the line that will capture the headlines:
Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access (opens the original)
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Cloudflare announced two products on August 4, 2026, during its Agents Week: Cloudflare Wallets, which will let AI agents hold stablecoins and pay for what they use, and cloudflare.pay, an optional identity handle that tells a merchant which account an agent acts for. Handle reservation opened the same day, and the payment features are future tense in Cloudflare’s own copy. Charging for access is not the new part. Cloudflare launched pay per crawl, still in private beta, on July 1, 2025, and ope
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