Why Cloudflare Blocked Unauthorized AI Access to Web Content
CEO Matthew Prince: Unchecked Scraping Could Undermine the Internet's Economic Model
With 20% of the web behind its platform, Cloudflare will now block AI web crawlers from scraping monetized content by default. CEO Matthew Prince says the company's policy gives all users, even on the free plan, control over AI bot access and protects the incentives for content creation.
With 20% of the web behind its platform, Cloudflare will now block AI web crawlers from scraping monetized content by default. CEO Matthew Prince says the company's policy gives all users, even on the free plan, control over AI bot access and protects the incentives for content creation.