{"id":944404,"date":"2025-07-07T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944404"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:48:00","slug":"cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-by-default-in-a-major-win-for-web-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-by-default-in-a-major-win-for-web-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default in a major win for web publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare has rolled out a major policy update where new sites will now block AI crawlers by default. This is a critical turning point for content creators and publishers, who have long-faced bots scraping content without compensation or traffic returns.<\/p>\n<p>Historical context: How it used to work<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the web operated on a \u201ccontent-for-traffic\u201d model: search engines crawled sites and sent visitors back via links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare has rolled out a major policy update where new sites will now block AI crawlers by default. This is a critical turning point for content creators and publishers, who have long-faced bots scraping content without compensation or traffic returns. Historical context: How it used to work Traditionally, the web operated on a \u201ccontent-for-traffic\u201d model: search engines crawled sites and sent visitors back via links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}