Cloudflare Blocks AI WebCrawlers
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Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

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Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default by default.
The internet architecture provider will also let some publishers make known AI scrapers pay to crawl their sites.
The company started letting websites block AI crawlers in 2023 , but it only applied to ones that abide by a site’s robots.txt file.
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