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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

That question has arisen after Cloudflare published a very detailed report alleging that Perplexity AI engages in underhanded ...

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures ...

According to Cloudflare, Perplexity’s crawlers were observed accessing tens of thousands of domains, generating millions of requests daily, even when sites explicitly blocked AI bots ...