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

Cloudflare’s recent allegations against Perplexity have sparked a debate about the wave of bots and AI agents flooding the ...

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

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

Cloudflare accuses AI startup Perplexity of using undeclared bots to bypass website defences, while Perplexity argues its actions are part of legitimate AI assistant operations.

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

AI-powered search startup Perplexity is under fire following serious accusations from Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure ...

Instead, the AI firm claims Cloudflare confused Perplexity requests with unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party ...

Perplexity says Cloudflare's analysis of its AI crawlers was technically flawedThere seems to have been a mix-up with a third ...

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

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

Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...