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Cloudflare doesn't block AI crawlers evenly: Amazon's is refused 2x more, OpenAI's search bot isn't

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Everyone reads the headline as "Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers." The measurement says something narrower and more interesting: on the sites whose own robots.txt says yes, Cloudflare refuses Amazon's and Meta's crawlers far more often than it refuses OpenAI's or Anthropic's — and for OAI-SearchBot it…

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  1. 2026-09-19 21:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Cloudflare doesn't block AI crawlers evenly: Amazon's is refused 2x more, OpenAI's search bot isn't

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