As the race for real-time data access intensifies, organizations are confronting a growing legal and operational challenge: web scraping. What began as a fringe tactic by hobbyists has evolved into a ...

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It ...

Cloudflare has caught Perplexity scraping websites that explicitly block AI crawlers. Perplexity's AI crawlers concealed their identity and even used undisclosed IP addresses. The AI startup was ...

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to ...

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, ...

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

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

Remember browser bars of the '00's... Going over to grandma's and launching IE only to be met with half a screen of browser bars. Spending a good hour uninstalling them, cleaning up the debris left ...

Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for ...

Cloudflare said it would block artificial intelligence crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation by default. The cybersecurity and network services company on Tuesday said website ...

Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default, giving website owners more control over how their content is accessed and used. The move introduces a “Pay per Crawl” marketplace where AI firms must ...