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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...
AI search fight: Cloudflare and Perplexity clash over crawling
Cloudflare says Perplexity evades crawl directives with stealth tactics; Perplexity calls the claims a misunderstanding – or ...
Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare
Cloudflare has accused the AI company of bypassing websites' no crawl directives. Here's how the CDN is responding.
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 ...
AI crawlers vs. web defenses: Cloudflare-Perplexity fight reveals cracks in internet trust
The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between ...
Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad
AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...
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Perplexity accused of breaking a major online AI scraping rule - but it says it has done nothing wrong
Cloudflare has accused AI giant Perplexity of scraping websites which explicitly disallowed crawling via robots.txt and other ...