https://antoniocortes.com/tags/monetization/Recent content in Monetization on Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)Hugoes-esSun, 01 Feb 2026 21:46:02 +0100https://antoniocortes.com/en/post/2025/cloudflare-pay-per-crawl/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://antoniocortes.com/en/post/2025/cloudflare-pay-per-crawl/<h2 id="content-independence-day-the-day-the-web-said-enough-is-enough">&ldquo;Content Independence Day&rdquo;: the day the web said &ldquo;enough is enough&rdquo;</h2> <p>Today, July 1, 2025, Cloudflare officially declared <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/">&ldquo;Content Independence Day&rdquo;</a> with the launch of <strong>&ldquo;Pay per Crawl&rdquo;</strong>, its new tool that allows website owners to charge AI crawlers for accessing their content. As a DevOps Manager who manages web infrastructures daily, I can say <strong>it was about time</strong>.</p> <p>And the numbers don&rsquo;t lie: while Google maintains a ratio of 18 crawls for every referral it sends (which is already brutal compared to 6:1 from six months ago), OpenAI has a ratio of <strong>1,500:1</strong> and Anthropic reaches <strong>73,000:1</strong>. Basically, they&rsquo;re sucking up all our content without returning even a crumb of traffic.</p>