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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity of Using Stealth-Crawlers to Circumvent the Rules of Access to Content

Summary by Actu IA
Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure provider, accuses Perplexity of dubious indexing practices, using bots pretending to be Google Chrome to access prohibited content to its exploration robots. Despite the blocking measures put in place, Perplexity has managed to obtain detailed information on newly created sites, leading Cloudflare to strengthen its protections and remove Perplexity from its list of verified bots.
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Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure provider, accuses Perplexity of dubious indexing practices, using bots pretending to be Google Chrome to access prohibited content to its exploration robots. Despite the blocking measures put in place, Perplexity has managed to obtain detailed information on newly created sites, leading Cloudflare to strengthen its protections and remove Perplexity from its list of verified bots.

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Actu IA broke the news in on Monday, August 11, 2025.
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