Cloudflare Delists And Blocks Perplexity From Crawling Websites

August 4, 2025

Cloudflare Delists And Blocks Perplexity From Crawling Websites

Cloudflare announced that they delisted Perplexity’s crawler as a verified bot and are now actively blocking Perplexity and all of its stealth bots from crawling websites. Cloudflare acted in response to multiple user complaints against Perplexity related to violations of robots.txt protocols, and a subsequent investigation revealed that Perplexity was using aggressive rogue bot tactics

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