The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

Cloudflare takes a stand on AI crawlers, which could enable publishers to finally make peace with the bots scooping up their ...

Cloudflare (NET) Opinions on AI Scraper Blocking Policy July 06, 2025 — 01:00 pm EDT Written by Quiver DiscussionTracker for Quiver Quantitative -> ...

Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure company responsible for routing about 20% of global web traffic, has announced it will begin blocking artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers by default. The ...

So far, Cloudflare’s head of AI control, privacy, and media products, Will Allen, tells WIRED, over 1 million customer websites have activated its older AI-bot-blocking tools.

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked if they want to allow or block AI crawlers. At least 16% of the world's internet traffic gets routed through ...