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The "Ethical" AI Company Is the Internet's Biggest Taker: Inside Anthropic's Crawl-to-Refer Problem

The "Ethical" AI Company Is the Internet's Biggest Taker: Inside Anthropic's Crawl-to-Refer Problem

Cloudflare tracks something it calls the crawl-to-refer ratio. It's a simple idea. For every page a company's bots crawl, how many actual human visitors does that company send back to the site the content came from?

Caleb MusiliJul 12, 2026
Cloudflare Says It's Fixing the AI Web. Is It Just Rewarding the Publishers Who Already Won?

Cloudflare Says It's Fixing the AI Web. Is It Just Rewarding the Publishers Who Already Won?

On July 1, 2026, Cloudflare returned with year two of that push. The announcement introduced a new classification system for web crawlers, a dashboard that shows publishers exactly how AI bots are using their content, and an evolution of last year's Pay Per Crawl feature into something called Pay Per Use. The headline change is a September 15, 2026 deadline for so called "mixed use" crawlers, bots that blend search indexing, AI training, and AI agent activity into a single pass. After that date, any crawler that refuses to separate those three purposes will be blocked by default on every page that carries ads, for new customers and for existing free tier customers who haven't changed their settings.

Caleb MusiliJul 8, 2026
Cloudflare Is Building a Transactional Email Service — And It Could Replace Brevo, Mailgun, and Postmark

Cloudflare Is Building a Transactional Email Service — And It Could Replace Brevo, Mailgun, and Postmark

If you have ever set up transactional email for a web application, you know the ritual. Pick a provider — Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, Brevo. Create an account. Verify your domain by adding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records one by one. Wait for DNS propagation. Submit your sending domain for review. Wait again. Hope your first emails do not land in spam while your sender reputation is building. Pay a monthly fee that scales uncomfortably with your user base.

Sandra SafariMar 24, 2026

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