Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

https://www.theverge.com/news/718319/perplexity-stealth-crawling-cloudflare-ai-bots-report

Emma Roth Aug 04, 2025 · 1 min read
Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites
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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare.

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare.