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Cloudflare Gives All Customers Granular AI Bot Controls

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Cloudflare Blog ·

Cloudflare now lets all website owners distinguish between search, agent, and training bots, replacing a blanket block. Users can also protect ad-monetized pages from AI crawlers. The update gives sites finer control over AI traffic without losing search visibility.

Meridian48 take
This is a pragmatic move that balances openness with protection, but the real test is whether it actually deters aggressive AI scrapers.
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