Cloudflare offers new control over AI crawler access
Cloudflare launched a tool to let website owners stay visible in search engines while blocking their content from being used to train artificial intelligence. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have agreed or plan to support this setting. Site owners can now separate permissions for search indexing from AI training, a split previously not possible with mixed-use crawlers. Cloudflare is planning even finer controls for AI-generated summaries next year.
- Apple, Google, and Microsoft committed to honor the setting
- Mixed-use crawlers previously forced a single yes/no choice
- 17% of sites block AI training; under 1% block search
- Cloudflare will add controls for AI summaries in 2025
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