Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
2025-07-01
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ...
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Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication
2025-07-01
Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity....
Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic
2025-05-15
Bots now browse like humans. We're proposing bots use cryptographic signatures so that website owners can verify their identity. Explanations and demonstration code can be found within the post....
Making Application Security simple with a new unified dashboard experience
2025-03-20
We’re introducing a new Application Security experience in the Cloudflare dashboard, with a reworked UI organized by use cases, making it easier for customers to navigate and secure their accounts....
Improved Bot Management flexibility and visibility with new high-precision heuristics
2025-03-19
By building and integrating a new heuristics framework into the Cloudflare Ruleset Engine, we now have a more flexible system to write rules and deploy new releases rapidly....
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