Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth crawlers” to evade website no-crawl directives. This practice, if true, is a significant breach of the internet’s long-standing trust between ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare. Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, ...

The feud underscores the need for new standards in AI-web interaction, as bot detection tools struggle to distinguish between helpful assistants and harmful scrapers. A public war of words has erupted ...

Social media giant Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three other firms over alleged “industrial-scale” scraping of posts from its website. Perplexity – a San Francisco-based startup with its own ...

A federal judge in San Francisco granted Amazon a preliminary injunction Monday blocking Perplexity from using its Comet browser’s AI agent to access password-protected sections of the Amazon website ...

Perplexity has found itself in the crosshairs lately after some questionable attempts to expand on its knowledge base, as well as its attempts to pick up Chrome from Google. However, the company ...