Cloudflare debuts Friendly Bot validation service>
ZD Net
Cloudflare has introduced “Friendly Bots,” a new way to verify an online bot’s identity.

Normally, bots are verified through public forms and documentation provided by a developer, including its IP addresses — whether static or dynamic — rDNS, user agents, and machine learning (ML), the use of smart algorithms that detect patterns in bot behavior and aim to profile the innocent ones.

Friendly Bots will allow users to “auto validate” bot traffic through the Cloudflare dashboard. Users can provide information about a bot, and the company will then be better equipped to verify bots based on their traffic.

In addition, if users in large numbers are submitting the same bot to allow lists, such as through a specific IP address, this bot will be automatically added to the ‘to verify’ list.

Cloudflare says that Friendly Bots will be launched “soon” and will “reduce false positives, improve crawl-ability, and generally stabilize sites.” Verified bots to are also being added to the Logs feature under Cloudflare Radar.
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