New policy shift gives website owners greater control over how their content is accessed by AI models.

Cloudflare changed its policy to block AI crawlers by default, requiring website owners to grant explicit permission before AI vendors can scrape content. The update lets publishers approve or deny access based on purpose—training, inference, or search—and set terms for any allowed crawls. Cloudflare said the permission-based model aims to protect site traffic and revenue while still enabling AI innovation.

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