“While it’s a bold idea, Cloudflare is not sharing a fully fleshed-out idea of what its marketplace will look like.”
What shipped Monday is a free dashboard and a block button. The marketplace is “sometime in the next year,” with no prices, no buyers and an option to get paid in “credit” instead of money. Even TIME and Condé Nast just take OpenAI’s word on how much it scrapes. Cloudflare already sits in front of the traffic, and now it wants a cut of the toll booth.