Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its customers and bot operators.
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It’s literally what their entire business is based on. Filtering good and bad traffic.
Their business is largely based on security and preventing specific types of actions on a site. Not just the mere act of visiting it.
It is. And they are blocking AI crawler for a while now. https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/