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Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content. ...
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Building unique, per-customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era
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Today, we are announcing a new approach to catching bots: using models to provide behavioral anomaly detection unique to each bot management customer and stop sophisticated bot attacks. ...
Helping protect journalists and local news from AI crawlers with Project Galileo
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The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic
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The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control
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Cloudflare launches AI Crawl Control (formerly AI Audit) and introduces easily customizable 402 HTTP responses....
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