Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers

Re:Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers by ipaddr on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:09PM (#40814537)

Cloudflare is great at blocking users legitimate or not.

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Re:Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers by tomschlick on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:11PM (#40814574)

There is always going to be false positives. Even more so with a tech/privacy minded userbase which uses ad blockers, disables JS, etc.

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Re:Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers by jgalt212 on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:17PM (#40814619)

I personally have had more issues with Google Captchas than Cloudflare Turnstile when using the dreaded Firefox / Linux combo.

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Re:Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers by bornfreddy on Thursday June 27, 2024 @04:22PM (#40814669)

Of course. Google has every incentive to make life difficult for ff users, while CF doesn't.

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