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Perplexity rejects Cloudflare claim of secret site scraping

August 7, 2025 0

AI-powered search startup Perplexity is under fire following serious accusations from Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure firm. In a recent blog post, Cloudflare claimed that Perplexity’s systems bypassed explicit site restrictions in order to extract data, a practice that has intensified debate over the ethics of AI web crawling. Allegations of Unauthorized Crawling The controversy comes just days after Perplexity …