Perplexity, an AI search startup, faces allegations from Cloudflare of using deceptive tactics to bypass website restrictions ...

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

Cloudflare has since removed Perplexity's bots from its list of verified bots and implemented new AI-blocking techniques.

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

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

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

The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting ...

Cloudflare accuses AI platform Perplexity of ignoring site restrictions by using stealth crawlers that impersonate browsers ...

Responding to Cloudflare's analysis and testing, Perplexity declared that analysis was technically flawed and that it ...

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity due to deceptive crawling behavior, including rotating IP addresses and ignoring robots.txt ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation ...

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