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

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

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

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

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

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

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

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

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added ...

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

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

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