Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned on July 2, 2025, that unchecked scraping threatens the internet, with media outlets like AP, BuzzFeed, and Time showing support.

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned on July 2, 2025, that unchecked scraping threatens the internet, with media outlets like AP, BuzzFeed, and Time showing support.

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Cloudflare Matthew Prince

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Jun 8Cloudflare, led by Matthew Prince, is establishing a new permission-based marketplace to address content scraping concerns.Sub-event
Jul 2Cloudflare warned about unchecked scraping; media partners included AP, BuzzFeed, and Time.
Jul 1Roger Lynch praised Cloudflare's approach while Prince remains CEO.

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Cloudflare accused Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites, a behavior criticized by Matthew Prince. All 1 developments

The entities involved

Cloudflare
American internet infrastructure and website security company
- Datadog, Dynatrace, Oracle, and Cloudflare are all operating in the competitive software industry, with Datadog and Dynatrace being direct peers in observability.Fri 20:35
- Cloudflare is running its Project Galileo initiative.Fri 17:52
Matthew Prince
American businessman and entrepreneur

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