To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation ...

Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...

Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has publicly accused AI search startup Perplexity of engaging in deceptive practices ...

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is ...

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity of bypassing website restrictions that explicitly block AI scraping. Perplexity's bot has ...

Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...

Cloudflare set a trap for Perplexity, and the AI startup crawled right into it. This has lessons for other AI companies ...

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...

In a blog post, Cloudflare alleged that Perplexity initially uses a declared user agent for its bots, and later switches to ...

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity due to deceptive crawling behavior, including rotating IP addresses and ignoring robots.txt ...

Cloudflare reports that Perplexity's web crawlers are disguising themselves to access sites that have them blocked.