Scraping wars are new spam wars.

https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-default/

ICYMI – we lost the spam wars. This is about giving publishers more leverage in their negotiations with the answer engines.

“Cloudflare’s shift to blocking by default could prove a significant roadblock to surreptitious scrapers and could give publishers more leverage to negotiate, whether through the Pay Per Crawl program or otherwise.”