By default Cloudflare is now blocking AI Bots and Crawlers
AI crawlers and AI bots which crawl your website and steal the content to train their LLMs and show your content on AI searches have now been blocked by Cloudflare by default. Cloudflare calls this Content Independence Day where they’ve started blocking all AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. They’ve launched the Pay Per Crawl services where the AI crawler or AI bot will have to pay the content creator for crawling their content and indexing it. This way content creators will be directly compensated for it.
Major Publishers and news and media corporations likes Fortune, Forbes, etc have signed up for Pay Per Crawl access by AI bots and crawlers.
Pay per crawl grants domain owners full control over their monetization strategy. They can define a flat, per-request price across their entire site.
Most of the websites hosted with The-Online.com web hosting are using Cloudflare CDN and have ability to enable AI crawlers to crawl your content OR with just using toggle OFF button website developer can block AI crawlers.