Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1 Since July 2024, Cloudflare has offered customers tools to block AI bots from scraping their content Cloudflare told WIRED that the number of AI bots blocked since July 1, 2025 is 416 billion
Cloudflare Chaos Breaks the Internet as AI Bots Are Blocked . . . The situation worsened as it emerged that Cloudflare had blocked over four hundred billion AI bot requests this year alone in a sweeping new policy to protect content creators and publishers Dubbed Content Independence Day by the company the move forces AI services to request permission or face outright denial of access to websites
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