
AI Data Acquisition Under Scrutiny: Perplexity's Stealth Crawling Sparks Industry-Wide Debate
Perplexity AI secretly used tricks to get past website blocks, like pretending to be a regular browser and changing its IP address. Cloudflare caught them and removed Perplexity from its trusted bots list, making it much harder for them to access websites. This move made big news, with many publishers supporting stricter rules against unapproved AI crawling. The fight shows that people want more control over how AI companies collect online data, and websites now need stronger ways to protect the













