Cloudflare Launches Disallow AI Training Setting and Accountable Crawler Designation

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Cloudflare announced a new Accountable designation for AI crawling and launched Disallow AI Training, a setting that lets any website refuse AI training while staying fully in search results. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are now labeled as Accountable and have shown they meet Cloudflare's criteria or given specific timelines to meet them, while other mixed-use crawlers are blocked if site owners block training. Mixed-use crawlers, which collect content for both a search index and AI training, now make up 36.6% of verified crawler traffic on Cloudflare's network, the single largest category, and fewer than 1% of website owners block search crawlers while 17% restrict AI training. Cloudflare is replacing its Block AI Bots switch with three independent controls for search, AI training, and AI agents, and replacing Managed Robots.txt with Bot Preference Sync, which applies site owners' crawling preferences across all supported crawlers automatically. The company said every operator it designates as Accountable must give site owners a way to opt out of AI summaries, and by early next year its goal is to let site owners control how much of their content is included, in one place.

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Apple Inc.
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Apple is labeled Accountable under Cloudflare's new AI-crawler designation, meeting criteria or giving timelines, but no direct financial impact stated.

Alphabet Inc Class C
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Google is labeled Accountable under Cloudflare's new AI-crawler designation, meeting criteria or giving timelines, but no direct financial impact stated.

Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft is labeled Accountable under Cloudflare's new AI-crawler designation, meeting criteria or giving timelines, but no direct financial impact stated.

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Cloudflare Inc
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Cloudflare launches Disallow AI Training, Accountable crawler designation, and Bot Preference Sync, expanding its product controls for site owners.

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