Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, ...

Major publishers have signed on or expressed support for Cloudflare's latest move to block AI bot crawlers by default, including Gannett, Time, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, and the Associated Press.

Cloudflare introduces default blocking of AI data scrapers The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect ...

Additionally, Cloudflare promises to detect "shadow" scrapers — bots that attempt to evade detection — by using behavioral analysis and machine learning. What's good for the AI goose is good ...

Cloudflare's CEO has issued a stark warning for content creators. Matthew Prince said creators could lose out on advertising cash as people turn to AI for search purposes. He suggested creators ...

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase.

Although Cloudflare singled out Google, other search engines that view AI search features as part of their search products also use the same bots for training as they do for search indexing.

Cloudflare believes publishers should be able to charge AI bots for access if they want to, and pay per crawl is its first experiment for that particular purpose. "Each time an AI crawler requests ...

Cloudflare describes this as just "the first iteration" of using AI defensively against bots. Future plans include making the fake content harder to detect and integrating the fake pages more ...

Last July, Cloudflare introduced an optional setting to allow website publishers to block A.I. scrapers if they wanted. That led to the default setting on Tuesday.