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Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked
(blog.cloudflare.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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Kind of reminds me of that time CF bait and switched that gambling website. Everyone was wondering who they find more predatory and distasteful.
iirc it came out that the gambling site was intentionally cycling through cloudflare's IP range to avoid IP blocking, causing legitimate websites to be flagged as unsafe. They said they'd still host them, they just need their own IP and not one of cloudflare's. Horribly communicated to the customer though
That makes more sense now.