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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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If they could stop blocking real users at the same time they block AI crawlers, that would be nice.
I absolutely hate cloudflare because they always block me whenever I visit a site while connected to any VPN server on Proton, regardless of country. Even when I'm not connected to a VPN I sometimes have trouble with them deciding my connection is suspicious despite not having anything that should trigger it.
Make a dummy Google Account, and log into it when on the VPN. Having an ad history avoids the blocks usually. (Note: only do this if your browsing is not activist related/etc)
Also, if it's image captchas that never end, switch to the accessibility option for the captcha.
You just need to pay!