Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses. Instead of blocking crawlers outright, content creators can now send "Payment Required" responses with custom messages, creating direct communication channels for AI partnerships.| The Cloudflare Blog
Explore how judgment-free AI bots enhance customer intelligence, ensuring privacy and unbiased insights for better service and product development.| CustomGPT
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.| The Cloudflare Blog
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.| The Cloudflare Blog
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.| The Cloudflare Blog
Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post.| The Cloudflare Blog
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.| The Cloudflare Blog
To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.| The Cloudflare Blog