Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump

# Summary The article accuses Cloudflare's CEO of misrepresenting bot traffic data by claiming bots surpassed human traffic for the first time, when the company's own dashboard shows traffic is still approximately two-thirds human. The CEO allegedly cherry-picked HTML-only traffic numbers instead of total traffic figures and misattributed the bot increase to "agentic" AI agents when the actual growth comes from training scrapers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot—a category his pay-to-crawl product is designed to monetize. The author argues this is essentially a misleading sales pitch contradicted by Cloudflare's own data.