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Cloudflare Just Gave AI Training Bots the Middle Finger

Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web's content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to go.

Cloudflare Just Gave AI Training Bots the Middle Finger

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Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training.

After years of watching bots consume the web's content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to go.

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Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web's content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to go.

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