Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Using Stealth Crawlers to Evade Website Blocks
In brief Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth crawlers” to evade bans, rotating IP addresses and mimicking regular browsers to access blocked websites. Cloudflare delisted Perplexity from its verified bots program and deployed new technical defenses to catch and block deceptive scraping. Perplexity denies the claims, calling Cloudflare’s evidence a “sales pitch” and disputing…