Cloudflare Fends Off 416 Billion Bot Scrape Requests in 5 . . . The war over who controls internet content just hit a new milestone Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that his company blocked more than 416 billion AI bot requests since July, when the tech giant made blocking AI crawlers the default option for website owners That huge number follows
Cloudflare Blocks 416 Billion AI Scraping Attempts, Accuses . . . Cloudflare has blocked 416 billion AI bot scraping attempts over five months, as revealed by CEO Matthew Prince, who accused Google of abusing its search monopoly to coerce websites into allowing data harvesting The company promotes tools for blocking bots and paid licensing to foster a balanced web ecosystem
Cloudflare Blocks 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1 Cloudflare has been steadfast in its commitment to give customers the tools necessary to block AI bots from scraping their content freely According to Prince, the staggering figure of 416 billion blocked requests speaks to the overwhelming scale of AI bot activity targeting web content since the implementation of these protective measures