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Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth Bankrupts Data Scrapers


by Matthew - Technology News Australia April 15th, 2025

Cloudflare built a maze bankrupting data scrapers. The maze has a 97% success rate. Scraper firms are now shelving their $500K super-tools and hiring **behavioral psychologists.

Let’s raise a glass to Cloudflare, the digital overlord that just turned the AI arms race on its head. Introducing AI Labyrinth — a gloriously devious, beautifully engineered trap that’s bankrupting data scrapers faster than you can say “machine learning.”

💥 One major scraping company lost $2.3 million in the first week. That’s not a typo. That’s what happens when you think you can just glide a robot over someone else’s house and think you’re smarter than the furniture

For years, scraper bros with their six-figure toolkits and AI-powered arrogance thought they owned the internet. With 50+ billion scraping requests clogging up Cloudflare’s pipes daily (that’s nearly 1% of ...


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