Cloudflare Is Locking 1-in-5 Sites Out of AI Engines — June 2026
Jun 1, 2026
Cloudflare sits in front of 22.4% of the web. Since 'Content Independence Day' (Jul 1, 2025), every new Cloudflare domain blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Grok by default. 1M+ customers have enabled the block — most without realizing it.
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