Indie developer Jeff Johnson is out with a new Safari extension that aims to block web fonts different than the installed fonts on your device. Dubbed “StopTheFonts,” the extension is highly ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through Cloudflare ...

Hundreds of major companies and websites are now blocking ChatGPT's web crawler. Dozens more are also now blocking the crawler of Common Crawl, a major source of AI training data. Unique, high quality ...

Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners' permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly ...

Multiple news organizations have blocked OpenAI LP from crawling their websites, according to a new report. The Guardian reported today that The New York Times, CNN, Reuters and the Chicago Tribune ...

From today, Cloudflare users will be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers from accessing their web content without permission of monetary compensation by default, in a bid to stop AI ...

You’ll be able to fully block web videos from automatically playing in Microsoft’s Edge browser. You’ll be able to fully block web videos from automatically ...

We first spotted signs of Apple blocking web apps in iOS 17.4 within Europe, a move which was later confirmed and explained by the company. But while Apple argues that it made the move in order to ...

Every now and then I revisit the best way to block ads. What's your favorite software to block ads on browsers? I use Firefox for personal web stuff, Chrome for biz and Vivaldi for special interest ...

Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT. Internet users can block GPTBot and keep their site out of ChatGPT. is a reporter who writes about AI. She also covers the ...