AI Crawler Exhausts Free Tier Quota in 7 Hours
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-07-14
After enabling AI bot tracking, Trust Insights exhausted their Cloudflare free tier limit of 100,000 requests in just 7 hours.
The post highlights that this is more than just an "AI governance discussion"—it's a direct signal that AI crawlers are actively consuming website traffic and protection resources. These changes are happening quietly behind the scenes. The author's point is that while people debate governance frameworks, the actual operational impacts are already hitting website administrators.
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