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AI bots dominate web traffic, toll‑booth charging expands

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Latest: Cloudflare and AWS launch AI bot toll‑booth charging model

Cloudflare’s July 4, 2024 briefing revealed AI‑driven bots were responsible for roughly 57 % of HTML requests, prompting a Pay‑Per‑Use policy that began charging mixed‑use crawlers on ad‑supported pages on 1 July and def