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

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

Overview Python tools like Scrapy and Selenium help scrape large or interactive websites easilyNew AI tools like Firecrawl ...

Perplexity is reportedly bypassing restrictions to scrape websites, using stealth crawling to evade robots.txt files and ...

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

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

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

Some websites go out of their way to block AI from scraping their content, but according to Cloudflare, Perplexity is scraping them anyway.

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

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

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

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