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Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

Cloudflare announced new AI traffic options for its customers, allowing them to control how AI bots and crawlers access their content. The options include blocking all AI bots, allowing only specific ones, or setting rate limits, giving website owners more control over AI data scraping.

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Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers
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[Hacker News AI](https://news.ycombinator.com)Article URL: [https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/](https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052564](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052564)

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