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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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You'd think that a competent technology company, with their own AI would be able to figure out a way to spoof Cloudflare's checks. I'd still think that.
Perplexity: "But that would cost us moneeyyyy!"