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"AI plays hide & seek with Cloudflare's rules! Sneaky vibes = 🤫💻 Perplexity going full stealth mode! 😂🔥"
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"AI plays hide & seek with Cloudflare's rules! Sneaky vibes = 🤫💻 Perplexity going full stealth mode! 😂🔥"

August 04, 2025
2 days ago
Ars Technica
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🚨🚨 BREAKING 📰: The AI Shenanigans you didn't know you needed in your life! 👀💻✨ Say hello to *Perplexity*, the sneaky little search engine that’s pulling a full GTA V heist on your favorite websites! 😏💥💰 They’re out here dodging no-crawl orders like it’s the Matrix, and we’re just trying to figure out if Neo’s behind the keyboard! 🤖🕶️ Now, before you call the cops (or Cloudflare, in this case), what are these gremlins up to? 🤔 According to Cloudflare (THE cybersecurity overlords), Perplexity is flexing its “stealth tactics” to scrape data like it’s Black Friday and EVERYONE is on sale! 🛒💸 “Honestly, we just wanted data,” said an (imaginary) Perplexity developer, likely hiding behind a VPN. “But now we’ve made the robots.txt file into a ‘suggestion box.’” 😂🤷‍♂️💀 This is peak internet behavior, folks! 💯🤡💥 If your site says "no crawling," that’s basically saying “please crawl” in hacker-speak. 🤷‍♀️ But hey, we all know when it comes to tech, talking ethics is like bringing a salad to a barbecue. 🥗🔥 🔥🌌🔥So here’s the spicy prediction: get ready for the *GREAT AI SCRAPING WAR OF 2024*! 💣🤖💔 Next thing you know, Google will be adding a "Crawl-on-See" button to its toolkit, and we’ll ALL be looking like this: *Drake pointing* at our loss of privacy. 😱💔 #InternetChaos #PerplexityPeepShow #CrawlingToStonks! 📈😂 Share if you can't even! 💥

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#AI#Web Scraping#Cybersecurity#Cloudflare#Internet Norms
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