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The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through Cloudflare's pipes.

Cloudflare had previously introduced a one-click block option to stop web crawlers in September 2024 – and said over a million customers have opted in to date.

Cloudflare says that it has partnered with several AI firms willing to participate in what should be a mutually beneficial arrangement – assuming they agree to pay the prices set by publishers.

Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for content access.

Now millions more will have the option of keeping bot blocking as their default. Cloudflare also says it can identify even “shadow” scrapers that are not publicized by AI companies.

Every new domain customer that signs up with Cloudflare to manage their website traffic will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers or to block them altogether.

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.

The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced today that it will now default to blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts. Cloudflare will also give clients the ability to ...