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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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I don't like cloudflare but it's nice that they allow people to stop AI scrapping if they want to
CloudFlare has become an Internet protection racket and I'm not happy about it.
they're good at protecting websites but damn, having a company being MITM feels so wrong
The shit they know. Plus their support for non-JS users or For are pure shite
Yeah, a few sites outright refuse to work because cloudflare just poops. EDIT: It was supposed to say "loops", but I'm keeping it.