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Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare Is Locking the Door’: Publishers Celebrate Victory Against AI Bot Crawlers

Summary by Digiday
Cloudflare has emerged as publishers hero providing a one-button click that blocks all AI crawlers and introducing a new payment model.

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As AI-powered corporate bots shamelessly plunder the open web, publishers are looking for ways to offset the losses caused by this large-scale content harvesting. Cloudflare is proposing a system that could rebalance the balance of power by charging AI bots.

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01net broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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