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Cloudflare, Perplexity and AI crawlers

Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

To test this, Cloudflare says it created new domains with similar restrictions against Perplexity’s AI scrapers. It found that the startup will first attempt to access the sites by identifying itself as the names of its crawlers: “PerplexityBot” or “Perplexity-User.”

BGR on MSN · 4h

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity Of Scraping Websites Blocked From AI Scraping

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

Yahoo Finance · 3h

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks

The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting Cloudflare to kick it out of its verified bot program and roll out new anti-scraping defenses.

An AI data trap catches Perplexity impersonating Google

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

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

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

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

Perplexity has long been accused of bypassing anti-scraping measures. A new report shows that it may actually be getting worse.

Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

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