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Re:Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block ... by fathomdeez on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:25PM (#44501545)
It doesn't seem like the extra traffic is the issue. People don't want Google's AI from reading and summarizing their data and thus preventing clickthroughs. Why would I click on your site if google did all the work of giving me the answer ahead of time?
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Re:Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block ... by dathinab on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:30PM (#44501601)
> It doesn't seem like the extra traffic is the issue.

it really can be, Anubis AI crawler detection was create mainly because of "way to many AI bot requests" to quote

> This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies.

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Re:Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block ... by imilk on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:38PM (#44501665)
Both are an issue. People don't want AI overviews cannibalizing their website traffic. People also don't want AI bots spamming their website with outrageous numbers of requests everyday.
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