Cloudflare Says Perplexity’s AI Bots Ignore No-Crawl Directives

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Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives.
In other words, Perplexity is getting around regulations aimed at stopping its AI web crawlers from receiving access to certain…

This story appeared on tech.co, 2025-08-04 21:19:07.
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