Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

August 4, 2025 Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

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