Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking. Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default, and created whitelists of approved bots to access content on their sites.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a strategy already adopted by publishers like People Inc.<\/a> at the beginning of this year and The Atlantic<\/a> at the end of last year. Reuters and Time made the decision to block bots by default last month.<\/p>\n \u201cWe saw that there was an imbalance between the value that publishers like Reuters provide and the value\u2026 that Reuters receives in kind, and so instead we went from a default allow-all to a default disallow all,\u201d said Josh London, head of Reuters Professional, who oversees the direct-to-consumer and direct-to-professional businesses. \u201cOur content costs money to create. It has significant value, and the access to it, we feel, must be earned.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading this article on digiday.com<\/a>. Sign up for Digiday newsletters<\/a> to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reuters and Time are taking a new approach to bot blocking. Both publishers have recently started blocking all AI bots by default, and created whitelists of approved bots to access content on their sites. It\u2019s a strategy already adopted by publishers like People Inc. at the beginning of this year and The Atlantic at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}