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.

Blocked 7.3 million attacks in Q2 2025, down from Q1 but 44% higher YoY compared to Q2 2024, with India among top targets.

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 has provided regular updates on the issues on its status page. Most recently, it wrote: "Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...