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 ...

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

Cloudflare has now exposed several secret details about Perplexity's crawling practices, alleging that the AI company uses ...

Why Cloudflare is drawing a line against Perplexity’s bots.

A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said ...

AI companies use bots to scrape the web, in order to gather data to train their models. Anubis is a program designed to block these bots from scraping self-hosted sites.

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Perplexity could be in a tricky situation after being called out for accessing websites that don't want to be accessed by AI ...

According to the internal planning document from late 2024, the new AI tool was expected to collect product information from 200,000 external brand websites this year by "crawling, scraping, and ...