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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

AI News - TechCrunch
Aug 4, 2025 15:41
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Summary

Cloudflare reports that Perplexity has been scraping websites despite explicit technical measures blocking such activity. This raises concerns about AI companies respecting website owners' preferences and highlights ongoing challenges in enforcing ethical data collection practices in the AI industry.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
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