{"id":40672,"date":"2025-07-04T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/media-briefing-cloudflare-is-locking-the-door-publishers-celebrate-victory-against-ai-bot-crawlers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:06:47","slug":"media-briefing-cloudflare-is-locking-the-door-publishers-celebrate-victory-against-ai-bot-crawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/media-briefing-cloudflare-is-locking-the-door-publishers-celebrate-victory-against-ai-bot-crawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Briefing: \u2018Cloudflare is locking the door\u2019: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks into Cloudflare\u2019s new tool that lets publishers block all AI crawlers \u2013 at the click of a button \u2013 and why publishers are celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>An end to publishers\u2019 AI crawler Whack-a-Mole<\/p>\n<p>Google ends tests of a feature that previewed recipes, Forbes CEO shares AI strategy, and more.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cloudflare\u2019s red-button blocker<\/h2>\n<p>Publishers everywhere have had reason to celebrate this week as a single Cloudflare toggle gave them a rare, decisive victory in the battle to keep AI bot crawlers off their content.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/media-briefing-cloudflare-is-locking-the-door-publishers-celebrate-victory-against-ai-bot-crawlers\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=general-rss\">Continue reading it on digiday.com<\/a> and subscribe to continue reading content like this.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Media Briefing looks into Cloudflare\u2019s new tool that lets publishers block all AI crawlers \u2013 at the click of a button \u2013 and why publishers are celebrating. An end to publishers\u2019 AI crawler Whack-a-Mole Google ends tests of a feature that previewed recipes, Forbes CEO shares AI strategy, and more. Cloudflare\u2019s red-button blocker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}