On September 15, Cloudflare will start cutting off Google traffic for millions of its smallest customers by default. And those customers won't leave. They've been begging for this. The story starts with AI Overviews. Google began answering questions directly at the top of search, using content scraped from recipe blogs, how-to sites, and product reviewers, then sending them a fraction of the clicks. One recipe blog called the arrangement a hostage situation. Sites are looking at their traffic…