Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl

Isn't cloudflare, in part, supposed to stop scraping?

Why am I having to do captchas and 'hold to verify', otherwise?

This is just a wishywashy middle finger to everyone not getting kickbacks, everyone else they just allow their site to be scraped, and everyone human that is still inundated with captcha crap.

So much of the web is essentially broken because of cloudflare for cool small scale scraping ptojects. Hopefully they allow small projects acess to this, and it os not just for big ai garbage.

Always thought this would be a good strategy for phone spam