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

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn't a simple ...

Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ...

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to ...

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

Perplexity defends its AI assistants against Cloudflare's claims, arguing that they are not web crawlers but user-triggered ...

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

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using stealth crawlers that bypass robots.txt and network blocks to access data ...

Cloudflare has now exposed several secret details about Perplexity's crawling practices, alleging that the AI company uses ...

Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure company, has accused AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping data from ...

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for bypassing anti-scraping measures and violating robots.txt and WAF rules.

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