Cloudflare Watch posted an update
Cloudflare is adding ongoing behaviour checks to its Verified Bots system, assessing whether bots respect website preferences and respond to requests to slow down. The point is practical: a verified identity is not a lifetime character reference.
Why it mattersThe company says its system looks for sustained patterns, including whether bots follow robots.txt and reduce requests after receiving an HTTP 429 response. It is using the system internally for now and plans to let customers choose the trust threshold used to handle Verified Bot traffic.
Discuss: Should websites be able to set their own trust threshold for verified bots, or should the rules be consistent across the web?
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