Cloudflare CEO Slams Google After Thwarting 416 Billion AI Bots In 5 Months

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently spoke out against Google's AI practices, highlighting that while his company has successfully blocked 416 billion unwanted AI scrapers from its customers' content, Google has made opting out of the practice extremely difficult for most companies doing business on the web. Prince spoke strongly in an interview with Wired, stating "We need to be able to make sure that businesses large and small flourish on a fair playing ground. This is the future we're trying to play for. That's the best thing for our business, because that's more people to be customers of ours. That's more internet for us to be able to protect."

Cloudflare is one of the key pillars holding up the modern Internet. Cloudflare offers an array of services, but one of its greatest strengths is blocking cyberattacks and spam from assailing customers' servers. Barring extreme circumstances ...