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🤖 What Cloudflare’s 15 September change actually did to AI crawler access 👇

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1 Jul
Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many

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4 Aug
Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Anecdotal report that blocking AI training bots with Cloudflare blocks Googlebot from indexing websites.</p> <p>The post <a

REPORT · HOW · Search Engine JournalOPEN STORY
15 Sept
Cloudflare Lets Sites Disallow AI Training Without Blocking Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Cloudflare's Disallow AI Training keeps mixed-use crawlers available for search. Google and Apple honor training opt-outs; Bing robots.txt support is pending.</p> <p>The post

REPORT · HOW · Search Engine JournalOPEN STORY
9 Sept
The SeenSure team is measuring Cloudflare’s 15 September change - tracking 1,046 websites to compare the before / after ... here's the baseline 👇

The SeenSure team is measuring Cloudflare’s 15 September change - tracking 1,046 websites to compare the before / after ... here's the baseline 👇 * 1,046 websites, each fetched by

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