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How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

The term "unicorn" is sometimes used to describe people like Zia Ahmad, whose professional versatility makes them a rare find. A back-end developer experienced in web scraping.

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC.

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

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again The company's bots appear to be 'stealth crawling' sites that have them blocked.

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

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Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or ...