Safeguard Cloud Paywall Is Now Available for WordPress
1st September, 2025 — The Safeguard Cloud Paywall is now available as a WordPress plugin to prevent unauthorized bot scraping with options for DRM and copy protection.
Bots scraping web content and recycling intellectual property to claim it as their own has always been a problem, but now that AI is using everyone’s intellectual property to provide authoritative answers without giving any credit to the original resource, the problem has grown exponentially.
Preventing bot access by using conventional fingerprinting methods has been tried and it can be foiled. ArtistScope has been researching fingerprinting and bot detection methods since 2024 and in May this year developed the only solution that can not only prevent all bots, but also provide management tools to add whitelisting for user and network management.
How it works
The Safeguard Cloud Paywall solution utilizes the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) with a secure web browser known as the ArtisBrowser to create a secure tunnel between a website and the user’s desktop. Consequently it also includes sophisticated options for access rights (DRM) and copy protection that can be applied to any web page.
The alternatives
The WordPress plugin for Safeguard Cloud Paywall has been available for some time but it is now available, as of today, from the WordPress plugin collection.
As well as managing user and network access, and preventing bots and other scrapers, it also serves as a PAYWALL what will allow access from bots that pay the tariff required by each the website owner.
The Safeguard Cloud Paywall is most unique in that it is the only viable solution that can be bulletproof. Others will certainly try to plagiarize the concept but few will be worthwhile because their resources will be limited. One who we considered might have the resources is Cloudfare, and they have just announced their own solution for bot protection and paywall.
The limitations
While Cloudfare’s explanation of bot solution sounds exactly what ArtistScope has been promoting since May this year, it relies heavily on their detection techniques that have already caused ongoing problems for everyone concerned. For example Cloudfare “human validation” currently caters for well known web browsers only, and they are getting a lot of complaints from webmasters about blocked subscribers who cannot use privacy browsers, privacy plugins or VPNs.
The Safeguard Cloud Paywall is also limited, but by using the ArtisBrowser, subscribers can be assured trouble free access and the website owners can rest assured that their content is more secure than ever imagined.
More info
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