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Cloudflare: Perplexity AI Acts Like North Korean Hackers, Ignores Scraping Blocks  PCMag UK Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives  The Cloudflare Blog Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it  Yahoo Finance AI company Perplexity is sneaking to get around blocks on crawlers, Cloudflare alleges  CyberScoop An AI Data Trap Catches Perplexity Impersonating Google  Business Insider Source …

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is …