Cloudflare is changing its approach to bots, moving from defense to offering content optimized for artificial intelligence.

Optimization for AI

Instead of presenting bots with complex HTML pages to parse, Cloudflare proposes providing data in simpler, structured formats, such as Markdown. This approach aims to make websites more easily usable by AI agents, improving their efficiency and processing speed.

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