Post #3703726
2026-07-09 20:57 UTC
Amazing !
Thank-you #Cloudflare for holding the line against #Google and #AI
"Beginning Sept. 15, all new websites signing up for Cloudflare, as well as all the customers on its free tier, will have the default settings in their bot management protocol set to block “multi-purpose crawlers” on any webpage that has ads. This means that any crawler that scrapes for both search indexing & AI training will be turned away at the door, unless the site owner decides otherwise."
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/
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@dch@bsd.network 2026-07-09 21:58
@ChrisIstace@socialbc.ca except they chose not to do this for Nazi content, generic hate speech, hosting known DDoS/stressor providers and worse. They’re only doing this as their bandwidth costs have exploded. Let’s not paint them in a good light when it suits them.