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Security2026-07-18 · source-backed
TechCrunch reports the move from robots.txt to active Cloudflare bot blocking. A platform at Patreon's scale conceding that voluntary compliance failed is the end of the polite-request era. Expect more creator platforms to follow and training-data acquisition costs to rise accordingly.
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