Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding ‘crawling activity’ as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them ‘more flair than cloud’
It’s AI versus the internet as Cloudflare and Perplexity have a public falling out over the ‘stealth crawling’ of restricted websites. The disagreement has spiralled to name calling, even, as Perplexity snaps back at Cloudflare calling it “more flair than cloud”, which isn’t quite the burn they think it is. Just last month, internet delivery…