Cloudflare CEO: bots now exceed human traffic, web future is 'pay to crawl'

Bot traffic now surpasses human traffic on the internet, ahead of Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince's late 2027 forecast

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AI agents proliferation is blamed for the surge in automated traffic

Prince predicts a future where web crawling access would require payment

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