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Perplexity AI Caught Red-Handed: Secretly Sneaking Past Website Defenses
Episode 1838
Perplexity AI has been exposed for secretly deploying stealth crawlers that intentionally evade website no-crawl directives, rotate IP addresses, and even masquerade as regular browsers. Despite explicit robots.txt blocks and firewall defenses, Perplexity’s undisclosed bots aggressively scrape restricted content from millions of websites daily. Cloudflare’s investigations confirm this shocking breach of trust, prompting immediate countermeasures against these rogue AI crawlers.
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Full Summary:
In this episode of Geek News Central, host Todd Cochrane discusses a significant story that revolves around Perplexity AI. He reports that Perplexity AI has been found to employ stealth crawlers that intentionally bypass website no-crawl directives, rotate IP addresses, and disguise themselves as ordinary browsers, despite explicit prohibitions against crawling certain websites. This revelation stems from a CloudFlare investigation that highlights Perplexity’s aggressive scraping of restricted content from millions of websites daily, raising ethical and legal concerns.
Cochrane describes this behavior as a blatant disregard for the rules that govern web crawling, and he stresses that such actions will likely fuel ongoing litigation against the company. He shares detailed findings from the in
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