Configure AI bot policies: New defaults on September 15, 2026
Configure AI bot policies New defaults on September 15, 2026 On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will set updated defaults for new domains: bots classified as Training or as Agent will be blocked on pages that display ads, and Search will remain allowed. Mixed-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training will also be blocked by all configurations to block AI training, including the legacy "Block AI bots" option. Before September 15, all customers can opt out of these new defaults ↗.
- ▪Configure AI bot policies New defaults on September 15, 2026 On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will set updated defaults for new domains: bots classified as Training or as Agent will be blocked on pages that display ads, and Search will rem
- ▪Mixed-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training will also be blocked by all configurations to block AI training, including the legacy "Block AI bots" option.
- ▪Before September 15, all customers can opt out of these new defaults ↗.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,323 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Cloudflare Docs |
| Canonical URL | https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:57:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T13:03:45.004Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T13:03:45.004Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | rlipTfQUiGqV · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Configure AI bot policies New defaults on September 15, 2026 On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will set updated defaults for new domains: bots classified as Training or as Agent will be blocked on pages that display ads, and Search will remain allowed. Mixed-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training will also be blocked by all configurations to block AI training, including the legacy "Block AI bots" option. Before September 15, all customers can opt out of these new defaults ↗. All Cloudflare customers can choose to block AI bots and agents based on their behavior. Cloudflare offers presets for the most common AI behaviors to give customers the option to treat different AI use cases distinctly: Search: crawlers that collect or index your content to answer questions about it later.
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