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 network and cybersecurity company Cloudflare announced it would be blocking AI scrapers from getting access to websites using its service without permission. Now, it seems like some crawlers are getting around through covert means, according to Cloudflare.
