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

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

Cloudflare says Perplexity evades crawl directives with stealth tactics; Perplexity calls the claims a misunderstanding – or ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...