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AI content access / pay-per-crawl

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Because Cloudflare is used by a large share of the web, default AI crawler blocking/pay-per-crawl could materially affect marketers, ecommerce, AI companies, and internet users.

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Because Cloudflare is used by a large share of the web, default AI crawler blocking/pay-per-crawl could materially affect marketers, ecommerce, AI companies, and internet users.

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Because Cloudflare is used by a large share of the web, default AI crawler blocking/pay-per-crawl could materially affect marketers, ecommerce, AI companies, and internet users.

@build_in_public · asserts

This is the biggest AI news since ChatGPT launched. 20% of all the internet uses Cloudflare. Cloudflare now by default will block AI from training on its sites. The biggest publishers all use Cloudflare. The top 20% of the internet could start to vanish from AI. Cloudflare is also introducing pay-per-crawl...

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This is the biggest AI news since ChatGPT launched. 20 percent of all the internet uses...

@build_in_public · 2025-07-04

This is the biggest AI news since ChatGPT launched. 20% of all the internet uses Cloudflare. Cloudflare now by default will block AI from training on its sites. The biggest publishers all use Cloudflare. The top 20% of the internet could start to vanish from AI. Cloudflare is also introducing pay-per-crawl...

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This is the biggest AI news since ChatGPT launched. 20% of all the internet uses Cloudflare.

Cloudflare now by default will block AI from training on its sites. The biggest publishers all use Cloudflare.

The top 20% of the internet could start to vanish from AI. Cloudflare is also introducing pay-per-crawl.

This means AI companies will need to pay websites to crawl their data. The top publishers in the world are all already on board with this.

War has officially been declared on AI. If you are in marketing, ecom, AI or just somebody who uses the internet, this is going to impact you because.