Open Web
A Short History of Paying for News: Why We’re Building Allegro Audience
The commerce layer has always been core to publishers and must be treated as a first-class part of the technology ecosystem. News organizations have been charging for regular access to the news for hundreds of years.
Analyzing 5,818 Publishers’ robots.txt Files: Most Non-profit News Organizations Allow AI Bots, OpenAI Most Commonly Blocked
Robots.txt is a common code format that allows website owners to instruct and direct crawlers, scrapers, spiders, and other automated systems that identify themselves as a unique user agent. Once used to green or red light search engines from accessing a site’s content, publishers are now relying on robots.txt for something completely new: Managing web…

