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

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

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

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

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

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

The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting ...

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

According to Cloudflare, this behaviour bypasses standard protocols like robots.txt and undermines trust between AI services ...

According to a Cloudflare report, Perplexity is evading website network blocks to gain access to data without the ...

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

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