From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Abstract: The automated process of extracting data from web pages is known as web scraping. The process involves downloading the HTML content of a web page, parsing it, and then retrieving the ...

Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections to scrape, harvest, and resell copyrighted content from Google Search results. The allegations: ...

Media companies announced a new web protocol: RSL. RSL aims to put publishers back in the driver's seat. The RSL Collective will attempt to set pricing for content. AI companies are capturing as much ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

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Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...

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