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Web Scraping in the AI Age: What Actually Changed
Web scraping in the AI age broke twice over: LLMs killed the CSS selector, and AI crawlers exploded while referral traffic collapsed. Here is what changed.
OpinionWeb DevAI CodingSecurityAutomationPythonCloudflareTrend Commentary1 min read · May 31, 2026
Cloudflare Is the Biggest Man-in-the-Middle in History (And You're OK With It)
Cloudflare terminates TLS for roughly 20% of all web traffic. Every proxied HTTPS request is decrypted and re-encrypted on their servers. Here's what that means, why we accept it, and what the alternatives actually look like.
OpinionSecurityCloudflareEncryptionNetworkingWeb DevTrend Commentary1 min read · Apr 11, 2026