Patreon Moves From Polite Requests to Active Blocking of AI Training Crawlers Using Cloudflare Tools

Patreon has stopped merely asking AI training bots to stay away and has begun blocking them at the network level, deploying Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control across every post on the platform. The shift, detailed in the company's own announcement and reported in mid-July 2026, marks a move from relying on the voluntary honor system of robots.txt to actually enforcing restrictions against bots that scrape content to train AI models.