ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: November 15, 2025, 12:00 AM EST AI data scrapers sap revenues: Cloudflare and TollBit push back with new controls November 14, 2025, 11:52 PM EST. AI crawlers are sweeping across the web, feeding generation models and eroding traditional online revenue streams. As generative AI harvests data from billions of sites without explicit permission, publishers see traffic and advertising income shrink-Wikipedia reports a dip in human visits, while Cloudflare argues the shift reduces traffic for ecosystems. In response, Cloudflare has rolled out measures to block AI crawlers that bypass payment or permission on millions of sites. On
