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, ...

A new report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity has been scraping content from websites that have opted to block AI web scrapers. The company says that Perplexity's continued attempts to hide its ...

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 ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than ...

Perplexity was discovered to be actively bypassing blocks from websites to scrape content in 2024, and a new report shows that it has continued with increasing sophistication as the company defends ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...