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

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

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

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

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

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Cloudflare is accusing the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity of using "stealth crawling behavior" to scrape content from ...

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

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

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content ...

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

Cloudflare accuses AI startup Perplexity of secretly scraping websites that explicitly blocked bots, claiming it bypassed restrictions and masked its identity to access protected content.