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<p>Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Robots.txt relies on bot compliance, while WAF, CDN, and server-level blocks enforce it. A breakdown of which layer stops AI crawlers for good.</p> <p>The post <a

<p>Should websites allow AI search crawlers?</p> <p>Not blindly.</p> <p>Blocking every AI crawler can protect content from some forms of reuse, but it can also make a site less