First, Cloudflare accused the AI company of bypassing no-crawl directives. Now Perplexity says Cloudflare has it all wrong.

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

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

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between ...

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

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

Internet security giant Cloudfare says Perplexity deployed "stealth crawlers" to evade restrictions and scrape content from ...

Cloudflare accuses AI platform Perplexity of ignoring site restrictions by using stealth crawlers that impersonate browsers ...

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' ...

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

In April, Perplexity was identified among Anthropic, Deepseek and Tiktok as one of many vendors driving regular surges in ...

The problem for web publishers is that this is a revenue-threatening parasitic relationship. When an AI bot gathers data and ...