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Cloudflare announces planned 15 September defaults for specified customer groups: allow search but block training and agent access on advertising-supported pages, including mixed crawlers that do not separate purposes. Customers can change settings.
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Cloudflare announces planned 15 September defaults for specified customer groups: allow search but block training and agent access on advertising-supported pages, including mixed crawlers that do not separate purposes. Customers can change settings.
Records the July announcement and scheduled date, not independently verified completion of deployment. No firewall or crawler settings on this archive were changed.
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Cloudflare announces planned 15 September defaults for specified customer groups: allow search but block training and agent access on advertising-supported pages, including mixed crawlers that do not separate purposes. Customers can change settings.
SRC-0416New-defaults passage, lines 309–316, and dateline.
Cloudflare · EN · 2026-07-01
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