Cloudflare is accusing Perplexity of using stealth crawlers to bypass site restrictions, triggering fresh concerns over how ...

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

Perplexity accuses Cloudflare of not sharing its methodology and misattributing crawling activity to its AI assistant.

Perplexity, a growing artificial intelligence company, has been repeatedly crawling websites against the wishes of content owners, prompting a wave of concern over digital ethics and user privacy.