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Why it matters
Patreon partners with Cloudflare to block AI scraping bots
TechCrunch Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is working with Cloudflare to actively block bots from scraping creator content for AI training, moving away from a reliance on standard robots.txt files.
Why it matters
Creators gain stronger intellectual property protection as platforms move from passive requests to active technical blocking of AI training bots.
Latest brief · Jul 22, 2026