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Blocking AI Crawlers to Protect User Privacy and Content Rights
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We now block known AI crawlers across C.IM, P.LU, R.NF, and Image.Hosting.
The goal is simple: reduce unauthorized scraping of user content.
Posts, videos, and uploads on our platforms belong to the people who publish them. They should not be treated as free training data by default.
Open Graph image by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash.
What changed?
We enabled Cloudflare’s “Control AI Crawlers” protection, documented here:
Cloudflare: Bot and AI crawler protection
This currently blocks known AI bots from major tech companies, including:
- GPTBot (OpenAI)
- ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
- GoogleOther & Google-CloudVertexBot (Google)
- Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta)
- Amazonbot (Amazon)
- Applebot (Apple)
- Bytespider & TikTokSpider (ByteDance)
- PetalBot (Huawei)
- CCBot (Common Crawl)
- DuckAssistBot (DuckDuckGo)
This list may change as Cloudflare identifies new crawlers.
Our policy
- Your content stays under your control.
- Your posts are not used without your consent to train AI systems.
- Privacy is part of how we run these services.
Content published on our platforms remains the intellectual property of the user. We will keep taking practical steps to protect that.
Questions or feedback can be sent through our contact page.
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