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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks

2025-08-05 07:55

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks

The $18 billion AI search startup allegedly disguised its bots to scrape content from sites that banned it, prompting Cloudflare to kick it out of its verified bot program and roll out new anti-scraping defenses.