Cloudflare has accused the AI company of bypassing websites' no crawl directives. Here's how the CDN is responding.

Cloudflare reports that Perplexity's web crawlers are disguising themselves to access sites that have them blocked.

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from websites that clearly said “no.” According to Cloudflare, Perplexity has been ignoring digital rules set by websites to stop bots from collecting their content and even disguising its identity to get around these blocks.