The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

Everyone loves the dream of a free for all and open web.

But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots? E.g.: They just blindly trust someone is sending Agent vs Training bots and super duper respecting robots.txt? Get real...

Or, fine what if they do respect robots.txt, but they buy the data that may or may not have been shielded through liability layers via "licensed data"?

Unless you're reddit, X, Google, or Meta with scary unlimited budget legal teams, you have no power.

Great video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M0QyOp7zqcY

You can lock it up with a user account and payment system. The fact the site is up on the internet doesn’t mean you can or cannot profit from it. It’s up to you. What I would like it’s a way to notify my isp and say, block this traffic to my site.

> What I would like it’s a way to notify my isp and say, block this traffic to my site.

I would love that, and make it automated.

A single message from your IP to your router: block this traffic. That router sends it upstream, and it also blocks it. Repeat ad nauseum until source changes ASN or (if the originator is on the same ASN) reaches the router from the originator, routing table space notwithstanding. Maybe it expires after some auto-expiry -- a day or month or however long your IP lease exists. Plus, of course, a way to query what blocks I've requested and a way to unblock.