AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

Cloudflare finds that Perplexity AI is 'repeatedly modifying' the company’s web-crawling bots to evade data-scraping measures on third-party websites.

Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for bypassing anti-scraping measures and violating robots.txt and WAF rules.

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from ...

Bright Data then sold the scraped data and developed and sold tools to help others scrape data and avoid detection. Bright Data argues its services allow customers to search for data that users choose ...

Perplexity says AI tools are different from traditional web searches, while Cloudflare points to obfuscation in forcing access to data even when websites say not to ...

AI startup Perplexity is accused of scraping content from websites that block such actions. Cloudflare reported deceptive methods used by Perplexity to bypass restrictions.