Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI For Evading Firewalls and Crawling Websites by Changing User Agent

Perplexity AI, an emerging question-answering engine powered by advanced large language models, has recently come under scrutiny for deploying stealth crawling techniques that bypass standard web defenses. Initially launched with transparent intentions, Perplexity’s crawlers would identify themselves via declared user agents such as PerplexityBot/1.0, respecting robots.txt directives and web application firewall (WAF) rules. However, in […]

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