In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang sit down with Cloudflare VP Will Allen to discuss the innovative pay-per-crawl model co-launched by their organizations. They explore how the rise of AI has disrupted the traditional “open versus block” internet model, creating a need for platforms to protect their content and data from commercial exploitation while maintaining community access.The discussion also:<ul><li>Explores the future of the bot ecosystem, emphasizing the importance of putting publishers back in the driver’s seat to decide how their content is accessed and monetized.</li><li>Explains the technical implementation of the pay-per-crawl system, which uses Cloudflare’s bot categorization and WAF rules to serve a 402 “Payment Required” message to specific crawlers.</li><li>Highlights the strategic value of data licensing, comparing comprehensive enterprise contracts with the more flexible, programmatic pay-per-use access enabled by the new model.</li></ul>Notes<ul><li>Connect with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamallen2050/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Will Allen</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/janicemanningham/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Janice Manningham</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-zhang-sre/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Josh Zhang</a> on LinkedIn.</li><li>Learn more about Stack Overflow Data Licensing <a href="https://stackoverflow.co/data-licensing/?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=leaders-of-code&utm_content=pay-per-crawl-episode" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</li></ul>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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