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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

By Matthew Prince

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block.

By David Belson

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf.

By Jin-Hee Lee

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

By Will Allen

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%.

By João Tomé

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.

By Mari Galicer

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