The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup will conceal its crawling identity “in an attempt to circumvent the…
Cloudflare has launched AI Labyrinth, an innovative tool designed to combat unauthorized web-scraping bots by redirecting them into an endless maze of AI-generated content. Introduced on March 19, 2025, this free, opt-in feature marks a significant shift in bot mitigation strategies, leveraging generative AI as a defensive weapon against unauthorized…
Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the complaint. The company equates the data scraping companies…