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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

You appear to have misread

just as we should have the right to sue them if their AI crawlers make our site unusable and plagiarize our work to the effect of thousands of dollars, or even press charges for the criminal act of intentional disruption of services.

YOU caused google lost ad revenue

GOOGLE's Crawlers have crippled sites