Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click

We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on the free tier. To enable it, simply navigate to the Security > Bots section of the Cloudflare dashboard, and click the toggle labeled AI Scrapers and Crawlers.

This is a cool idea and I’ve enabled it on my account. Check the data in the article, but 85% of Cloudflare users indicated they would prefer to block AI crawlers. which is a pretty dominant supermajority.

As I’ve written about, I’m not fundamentally against my writing being used to train LLMs, but I am increasingly annoyed with the attitudes of these companies, so I decided to take this symbolic step of making their lives marginally harder. Kudos to Cloudflare for productizing this.