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2025-07-01

Cloudflare aims to save the World Wide Web by blocking AI crawlers without explicit consent


Cloudflare introduces a consent-based approach for AI crawlers, giving website operators more power over their content. Media companies and platforms hope it will create fairer terms for original content online.


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Get out of my website! Cloudflare, one of the world's largest Internet infrastructure providers, has begun blocking AI web crawlers by default. [...]

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