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title: "Unblock AI crawlers: Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, Imperva"
description: "Your firewall may be hiding you from ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Vendor guides to allow AI search crawlers without opening the door to scrapers."
canonical: https://see-geo.com/unblock
language: en
updated: 2026-09-02
publisher: SeeGeo
---

# Unblock AI crawlers: Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, Imperva

Your firewall may be hiding you from ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Vendor guides to allow AI search crawlers without opening the door to scrapers.

## Pages

- [How do I unblock AI crawlers on Cloudflare?](https://see-geo.com/unblock/cloudflare) — Cloudflare's 'Block AI bots' toggle and Super Bot Fight Mode hide sites from ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. The settings to change, and how to verify.
- [How do I unblock AI crawlers on Akamai?](https://see-geo.com/unblock/akamai) — Akamai Bot Manager denies or challenges AI crawlers by category. Which categories to set to Allow, how to define missing bots, and how to verify.
- [How do I unblock AI crawlers on DataDome?](https://see-geo.com/unblock/datadome) — DataDome challenges any client it can't identify as a known good bot, AI crawlers included. Which categories to allow, the custom rule, and how to verify.
- [How do I unblock AI crawlers on Imperva?](https://see-geo.com/unblock/imperva) — Imperva (Incapsula) challenges suspected bots and blocks unknown ones, hiding you from AI assistants. The settings to change, and how to verify.