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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

WalletHub says it has blocked Google and other search engines from crawling more than 40,000 of its web pages, citing ongoing ...

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

Perplexity has long been accused of bypassing anti-scraping measures. A new report shows that it may actually be getting worse.

According to Cloudflare, Perplexity’s crawlers were observed accessing tens of thousands of domains, generating millions of requests daily, even when sites explicitly blocked AI bots ...

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