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

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

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

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

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

Cloudflare alleges that Perplexity is using stealth bots to illegitimately access and scrape data from websites, ignoring website directives and hiding its crawling activity.

Nine Entertainment thought it had blocked OpenAI, Perplexity and other major AI firms from scraping its content. They kept ...

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

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 ...

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

Cloudflare's CEO is ruffling feathers in Silicon Valley by blocking AI bots and pushing tech giants such as Google to finally ...

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