AI search fight: Cloudflare and Perplexity clash over crawling
Cloudflare accused AI answer engine Perplexity of “stealth crawling,” saying it uses deceptive techniques to bypass website blocks and access content it’s been explicitly told not to touch. In response, Perplexity said Cloudflare has a fundamental misunderstanding of how AI assistants work and accused the company of either publicity-seeking or technical incompetence. The big picture. […]








