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Infra2026-09-15 · source-backed
The policy announced in July took effect September 15: crawlers blending search indexing, agent retrieval and model training are blocked by default on ad-bearing pages, and every configuration blocking AI training now also blocks mixed-purpose bots (fastCRW). Applies automatically to new customers, new sites from existing customers, and all existing free-tier sites, with the legacy "Block AI bots" toggle deprecated the same day. If you run a retrieval agent against Cloudflare-fronted sites, expect fetch failures starting now unless your crawler declares a single purpose.
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