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Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare has publicly accused AI search startup Perplexity of engaging in deceptive practices ...
Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...
Leading internet security player Cloudflare said on Monday (5 August) in a post that it was delisting Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot, and would actively block Perplexity and all of its ...
Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...
Cloudflare has alleged that AI startup Perplexity is using deceptive methods to scrape content from websites that have ...
Cloudflare has accused Perplexity of bypassing website restrictions that explicitly block AI scraping. Perplexity's bot has ...
AI startup Perplexity has come under fire again, this time for allegedly scraping from websites that specifically blocked the startup's crawlers. The criticism ...
In its latest blog, cloud connectivity company Cloudflare accused Aravind Srinivas's firm, Perplexity AI of “ repeatedly ...
Cloudflare says that when when Perplexity's crawlers are presented with a network block, they 'appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences' ...
A digitally generated avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver appeared on Jim Acosta’s show, prompting debate over 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 ...