Cloudflare has accused AI startup Perplexity of dodging web restrictions and disguising its identity to scrape sites.

Cloudflare has accused Perplexity of bypassing website restrictions that explicitly block AI scraping. Perplexity's bot has ...

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures ...

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' ...

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

As per Cloudflare researchers, Perplexity is breaking this trust model by using stealth tactics to scrape website data even from those websites that explicitly block its declared bots — PerplexityBot ...

AI startup Perplexity has come under fire again, this time for allegedly scraping from websites that specifically blocked the startup's crawlers. The criticism ...

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

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

In today’s hyper-connected, data-driven economy, businesses rely on fast, anonymous, and stable proxy infrastructures ...

Cloudflare accuses Perplexity AI of using undeclared 'stealth crawlers' to bypass web standards, escalating the industry-wide ...