A year ago, Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl, letting sites charge AI crawlers per page. Last week, it went further, announcing a pay-per-use model in which publishers get paid when their content actually appears in an AI answer, and declaring that, from 15 September, its customers’ ad-supported pages will block unpaid “mixed-use” crawlers by default.

I’d be OK paying a subscription fee to access websites.

Two BIG problems though:

a) my anonymity b) conglomeration of websites into increasingly enshittified monopolies.