Prince: About half of Cloudflare customers want AI bots consuming their content
Matthew Prince · Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead · Jun 25, 2026 · at 1:17:08
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, shares internal customer data on how website owners view AI scraping and indexing.
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“Probably half of our customers are in that camp where they actually want to make it as easy as possible.”
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