Cloudflare to Block AI Crawlers by Default, Requiring Payment for Content Access
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-07-06
Cloudflare announced that starting this September, it will block AI crawlers from scraping website content by default. AI companies will now have to pay publishers to access their content. This move is seen as a major turning point for the internet content economy, potentially fundamentally altering how AI models source training data and reshaping the commercial negotiations between AI firms and content creators.
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