Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
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Patreon moving from robots.txt to Cloudflare‑level blocking is the shift from “polite requests” to active defense in the AI scraping wars. If you own valuable content, this is your cue to treat model training as an adversarial crawler problem — not a terms‑of‑service issue.
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