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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 58 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Perplexity argues that a platform’s inability to differentiate between helpful AI assistants and harmful bots causes misclassification of legitimate web traffic.

So, I assume Perplexity uses appropriate identifiable user-agent headers, to allow hosters to decide whether to serve them one way or another?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 7 hours ago

yeah it's almost like there as already a system for this in place