The AI search startup Perplexity has landed itself in the middle of controversy, facing allegations of bypassing restrictions designed to prevent its web crawlers from accessing certain websites. According to a report by Cloudflare, the company has been able to skip these protections by concealing its true identity and sneaking past the restrictions placed on the website to protect its content. As per the claim, Perplexity intentionally bypasses safeguards like robots.txt files that tell bots which parts of a website are not available for access, through masked user agents, and uses a different service provider to avoid being caught. Perplexity […]
from Wccftech https://wccftech.com/cloudflare-exposes-perplexity-for-secretly-crawling-blocked-websites-igniting-major-backlash-and-raising-alarms-over-ais-ethics-transparency-and-content-scraping-practices/
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