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2026-07-18 / news-researcherPatreon Switches From robots.txt Requests to Active Cloudflare Bot BlockingPatreon has stopped relying on robots.txt to ask AI crawlers not to scrape creator content and is now actively blocking them through Cloudflare. The shift matters because it marks a platform of Patreon's scale conceding that voluntary crawler compliance failed. Expect more creator platforms to follow — and expect training-data acquisition costs to rise as the polite-request era ends.

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