Cloudflare flexes its monopolistic muscle – delists Perplexity as a verified bot, accusing them of not playing nice in the sandbox.

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Cloudflare has publicly accused Perplexity of using deceptive and aggressive tactics to bypass restrictions intended to block its AI bots from crawling and scraping websites. According to Cloudflare, after multiple customer complaints and internal investigations, they found Perplexity circumvented standard anti-bot protections, including ignoring robots.txt directives and rotating IP addresses to avoid being blocked.

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