Where does the money come from?

[Phil8659]

Where does the money come from to run this Forum through Cloud Flare?

They do not even pay the authors of the mags content.

So, why the extravagance of Cloud Flare?

[FlashDangerpants]

You can set a price for the AI companies to pay if they want to crawl your site
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

[Phil8659]

You can set a price for the AI companies to pay if they want to crawl your site
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Anybody can search and find that. That is not the question.

It is already know, social forums have and are used for testing AI programming, i.e., tweaking a program to the advantage of corporate concerns, and relying on illiteracy to claim that when things go wrong, it is the fault of the program, not the programmers. AI is a con job.

It would be no surprise, if some of the so called members here, not only act like they wear tin foil hats, but actually use foil in their capacitors. And some that act perfectly normal, but sport a handicap which sometimes, does not comply their comments do not comply with the character.
It really does not matter, we learn socials skills, anyway we can, as children, a lot of use learnt from Leave it to Beaver, now it is leave it to Corporate parasites.

[Phil8659]

If you want a foundation of social media from the near past, you can find it on YouTube. In short, you choose your examples all the time, good or bad.

[FlashDangerpants]

You can set a price for the AI companies to pay if they want to crawl your site
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Anybody can search and find that. That is not the question.

The question you wrote was "Where does the money come from to run this Forum through Cloud Flare?" I answered your question. The site owner doesn't have to pay Cloud Flare if they force the bot users to pay instead. Your question has been answered.

[Phil8659]

You can set a price for the AI companies to pay if they want to crawl your site
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Anybody can search and find that. That is not the question.

The question you wrote was "Where does the money come from to run this Forum through Cloud Flare?" I answered your question. The site owner doesn't have to pay Cloud Flare if they force the bot users to pay instead. Your question has been answered.

Really? common knowledge, I asked where does it come from , not where it might come from. Secondly, different organizations are making AI bots, so no, you did not answer. Saying one unknown equals another has nothing to do what is the unknown. Where did you go to school?
A question is not a shell game.
AI is only a nickel word for data collection app.

[FlashDangerpants]

Secondly, different organizations are making AI bots

What do you think the relevance of that claim is?

[Phil8659]

Secondly, different organizations are making AI bots

What do you think the relevance of that claim is?

That you are deflecting like any other ignorant person trying to make like they know what they clearly do not.

[FlashDangerpants]

Secondly, different organizations are making AI bots

Why did you write that sentence? I can't understand what it's point was.