Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed' it [TechCrunch]
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Many people came to Perplexity's defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner's wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on behalf of its user be treated like a bot? Or like a human making the same request? Cloudflare is known for providing anti-bot crawling and other web security services to millions of websites. Essentially, Cloudflare's test case involved setting up a new website with a new domain that had never been crawled by any bot, setting up a robots.txt file that specifically blocked Perplexity's known AI crawling bots, and then asking Perplexity about the website's content. And Perplexity answered the question. Cloudflare researchers found the AI search engine used “a generic browser intended to impersonate Google Chrome on macOS” when its web crawler itself was blocked. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince posted
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