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Posts tagged cloudflare — 2 articles.
How It Works
How It Works · 24 min
Half My AI Crawler Traffic Wasn't AI Crawlers
I was one query away from publishing that AI assistants fetch this site 80 times for every Google click. One extra field in the query showed that half the traffic failed to verify and that I'd been wrong in three separate ways. The honest number is 11.
Shahzeb Umer
Aug 30, 2026
How It Works · 14 min
How Cloudflare Decides You're a Bot (Without a CAPTCHA)
How Cloudflare detects bots without a CAPTCHA: TLS and JA4 fingerprinting, HTTP/2 signatures, headless checks, and the 1 to 99 bot score explained.
Shahzeb Umer
Jul 13, 2026
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