I received the same sort of self contradicting response from Cloudflare. Their AMP bot mirrors and rehosts any pages one of their subscribers with AMP enabled links to. And their FAQ is so badly written it seems like english may have been their second language: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500063530...
>Will Accelerated Mobile Links if the AMP links are pointing to content publishers who are not part of Cloudflare customers?
>Yes. Only the discovery site (the website that has the links to AMP content) needs to be a Cloudflare customer.
When I saw their AMP-bot in my server logs I emailed them about this. 2 weeks later I finally managed to talk to a human. That was about 4 days ago and they still haven't responded. If you're not a Cloudflare customer they don't care that they're re-hosting and serving your content.
Yeah. After I saw the bot I added it to my robots.txt and I blocked all of Cloudflare's IP ranges to the server. But the bot had already come and gone. And the email I'm waiting back on from Cloudflare is about what to put in the robots.txt since it's not on the FAQ page. As of right now I'm trying,
>Will Accelerated Mobile Links if the AMP links are pointing to content publishers who are not part of Cloudflare customers?
>Yes. Only the discovery site (the website that has the links to AMP content) needs to be a Cloudflare customer.
When I saw their AMP-bot in my server logs I emailed them about this. 2 weeks later I finally managed to talk to a human. That was about 4 days ago and they still haven't responded. If you're not a Cloudflare customer they don't care that they're re-hosting and serving your content.