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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall
(www.searchenginejournal.com)
Oh no!
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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I can’t get over their CEO that looks like a nine year old. Not sure what it is about him
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Cry me a river
They do have a point though. It would be great to let per-prompt searches go through, but not mass scrapping
I believe a lot of websites don't want both though
Does it not need to be scraped to be indexed, assuming it’s semi-typical RAG stuff?
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