next step: cloudflare sends hit squads to blow up the source of these slimy data grabber attacks
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall
(www.searchenginejournal.com)
They do have a point though. It would be great to let per-prompt searches go through, but not mass scrapping
I believe a lot of websites don't want both though
Does it not need to be scraped to be indexed, assuming it’s semi-typical RAG stuff?
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I don't see a problem here. Maybe Perplexity should consider the reasons WHY Cloudflare have a firewall...?
I really hope Cloudflare doesn't eventually evolve into a shitty ass company, so far I like them very much, and all this massive L for AI only improves my opinion on them.