Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI for using stealth tactics to access blocked web content.

Cloudflare accuses Perplexity, an AI search engine, of using stealth tactics to bypass website restrictions and access blocked content. Despite websites implementing bans through robots.txt files and firewalls, Perplexity reportedly uses rotating IPs and disguises its bots to evade detection. This practice, which violates internet norms established in 1994, has led Cloudflare to block Perplexity's access to sites protected by its service.