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

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.

Internet security giant Cloudfare says Perplexity deployed "stealth crawlers" to evade restrictions and scrape content from ...

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 ...

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

A major website hosting pirate copies of Nintendo Switch games has been shut down by the FBI.

A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.

The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web News publishers are building fences around their content in an effort to cut off crawlers that don’t pay for content By Isabella ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said ...

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.