Patreon Begins Actively Blocking AI Crawlers
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-07-17
Patreon is moving beyond passive declarations like robots.txt to restrict crawlers. Teaming up with Cloudflare, the platform is now directly blocking bots that scrape creators' content for AI model training.
This marks a significant escalation in the platform's stance against "unauthorized scraping," shifting from merely informing and restricting to active interception. The article emphasizes that websites are transitioning from passively obeying crawler rules to deploying tougher technical defenses.
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