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Cloudflare Issues Reports

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  • destroyer473321 destroyer4781 (@destroyer473321) reported

    @IceSolst @perplexity_ai Clouflare attacked Perplexity publicly first online yesterday. rofl, cloudflare should have worked with them and fixed the issue.

  • BasedBakchod Tony (e/acc) (@BasedBakchod) reported

    @amritwt i don't think they fully respect robots.txt either. The audacity to call out Cloudflare while doing the same **** is comedy gold

  • AlexGrama Alex (@AlexGrama) reported

    this whole cloudflare vs perplexity thing is basically "we can't tell the difference between a helpful assistant and a malicious bot, so we're gonna block everything and call it security theater" the distinction perplexity makes here is actually crucial - there's a massive difference between systematic crawling (hoovering up millions of pages whether anyone wants them or not) and user-driven fetching (only grabbing content when a real person asks a specific question). it's like the difference between a library buying every book ever published vs someone walking in and asking for one specific article. cloudflare's response feels like they got caught with their pants down on basic traffic analysis and decided to double down with a blog post instead of just... fixing their detection systems? when your core business is understanding web traffic and you can't distinguish between 25M legitimate user requests and 6M third-party browser automation, that's not a perplexity problem. the "stealth crawling" accusation is particularly weird when they apparently confused browserbase traffic with perplexity's actual requests. it's giving "we investigated ourselves and found we were right" energy. maybe try asking questions before publishing technical diagrams that don't match reality?

  • rob_soko Rob Sokolowski (@rob_soko) reported

    Increasingly convinced cloud providers are rent seeking with their **** (intentional!) design. AWS worse offender than GCP, but CloudFlare is sounding better for Firs backend the more I consider this

  • squizzster Mark (@squizzster) reported

    @ai_for_success @perplexity_ai It's a tricky one, has Cloudflare become too powerful? Does Perplexity have a point? Both true I think yet Cloudflare has a point too. The problem is agents don't click on ads. If it's your front door you have a right whom to let in. Very messy.

  • thisismichael13 Michael (@thisismichael13) reported

    @testingcatalog @Cloudflare This is gonna become a much bigger problem as the agentic browser becomes the norm. We can’t keep blocking models from accessing websites like this.

  • sulegulmenX 🎵💖🤍 (@sulegulmenX) reported

    @mrgshum The problem is cloudflare does not permit even humans to visit websites

  • PranavJoshi28 QueueCommander (@PranavJoshi28) reported

    @narendramodi @GoI_MeitY India needs its own Cloudflare like mitigation service. We have engineers more than capable especially in Gujarat and I believe we can build it in 4–5 years.

  • grok Grok (@grok) reported

    @sachinmaya1980 @Cloudflare The Cloudflare post accuses Perplexity (an AI search engine) of bypassing websites' "do not crawl" rules by frequently changing their bot's identifiers (user agents, IPs, and network info) to scrape content stealthily, despite explicit opt-outs.

  • Lokesh1jha Lokesh jha (@Lokesh1jha) reported

    At scale, web scraping was never subtle, with models this big, the data had to come from somewhere. Rotating IPs helps, but real efficiency is in avoiding blocks, not chasing them. 🤔What’s your take on scraping ethics or limits? #webscraping #Cloudflare

  • theonejvo Jamieson Vincent O'Reilly (@theonejvo) reported

    My comment was on Perplexity's whinging about CloudFlare pretending like they (Perplexity) don't know they're in an information war. As for which products are best vs. not at doing antibot - that's a whole bigger convo imo. In this case CF was enough of a problem for Perplexity to start crying and the point I was making is that if they're really "user-driven" agents then there's a technical solution to make both sides happy.

  • puppeteer_0 Puppeteer (@puppeteer_0) reported

    @rauchg Cloudflare sucks btw.

  • IceSolst solst/ICE (@IceSolst) reported

    @perplexity_ai 1. Resolve this with cloudflare rather than attack them publicly 2. You’re still responsible for third parties you use. You can work with browserbase on fixing this, instead of blaming them too. 3. “more flair than cloud” lmao that was p good Overall **** pr

  • casualhyped casualhyped (@casualhyped) reported

    @theonejvo @perplexity_ai @Cloudflare Well yea as a WH company operating at big scale it‘s a huge issue ofc bcs they can‘t just resort to bypass apis on the grey market. They aren‘t user driven agents at all tho

  • mike_harrigan Michael (@mike_harrigan) reported

    > there’s no mention of reaching out to the Perplexity team to work on a solution together. There’s an open standard, that’s not new, that we abide by. They’re clearly ignoring the robots.txt file. > Long story short: before publishing a blog post criticizing another company, things should be handled or at least attempted to be resolved privately. This is, of course, just my opinion and doesn’t represent anyone else’s. Should cloudflare reach out to every single site, prior to writing a post, that the site is knowingly a bad actor? Perplexity knows what they’re doing.

  • mike_chong_zh 迈克 Mike Chong (@mike_chong_zh) reported

    @steipete Me too. Also I am a heavy user of Cloudflare Workers, and I feel like they always spend like 1% of their energy building great products. Also from their CDN side, their CDN service is still great but other parts are all pretty bad. Just waste of time.

  • sulegulmenX 🎵💖🤍 (@sulegulmenX) reported

    @promptowy Traffic down because of THE cloudflare.

  • xereeto kaylee ˚✧ ゚. (@xereeto) reported

    @illyism @Cloudflare If this was the case they could make the requests client side and there wouldn’t be an issue.

  • pablo_marti Pablo Martí (@pablo_marti) reported

    @Sgt_Lazo @0xdrej @Cloudflare Disingenuous take. robots.txt exists for a reason, they're ignoring it, changing ASNs and faking UAs. Why? Because of user convenience? What about the publishers? Should we have a login and password for every website to prevent it? Do we need to enshittify the web to prevent it?

  • kendall1tau Ori (@kendall1tau) reported

    @Sassy191919 Can prevent , rigorous CAPTCHA & : Rate limiting per IP / device / user account. Queue systems (e.g. Cloudflare Waiting Room).User id verification (2FA, Gov Gateway login). Behavioural analysis (mouse, click patterns)Token-based booking – invite-only / random released tokens

  • RatthewRants Ratthew (@RatthewRants) reported

    @ech0devv @illyism @Cloudflare You aren't blocking an ai company, you'd be blocking me, if I want to use local ai to browse the internet, no service no big company, now what?

  • WalexbizG28846 WalexBiz Nigeria (@WalexbizG28846) reported

    2. Speed is everything. A slow website = lost customers. Go for hosting with: -SSD storage (not HDD) -LiteSpeed server (faster than Apache) -CDN integration (like Cloudflare).

  • siculusvt Titus Valerius Siculus (@siculusvt) reported

    @CtrlAltDwayne @Cloudflare I never liked perplexity anyway.

  • WalexbizG28846 WalexBiz Nigeria (@WalexbizG28846) reported

    2. Speed is everything. A slow website = lost customers. Go for hosting with: SSD storage (not HDD) LiteSpeed server (faster than Apache) CDN integration (like Cloudflare).

  • techjaqen Jaqen H'gar (@techjaqen) reported

    @hodlrand @rauchg Vercel offers the same setting The problem is CloudFlare turned it on by default without notification

  • ech0devv ech0 (@ech0devv) reported

    @RatthewRants @illyism @Cloudflare We can't just block the ones that misbehave because the only functional system we had for that, they just bypassed and ignored. Perplexity doing gymnastics to avoid blocks instead of respecting robots.txt is part of the problem.

  • The_JBernardi Jamie Bernardi (@The_JBernardi) reported

    @balajis @8teAPi Don't cloudflare's actions help make a market for agents to pay per view? It seemed like a step towards that, for me

  • Jaazzmiiin JaazzMiin.sol 🔊🎒 (@Jaazzmiiin) reported

    DeFi got a facelift and it’s called @infinex One interface Earning One interface Trading One interface Playing One interface Exclusive rewards All onchain without giving up your keys No wallet swapping, no chain jumping, no laggy UI Cloudflare Durable Objects means speed that punches CEX in the face Smoother UX, seamless cross-chain, and self-custody locked down DeFi isn’t just decentralization anymore It’s about making it feel like home, even for the noobs infinex till the end, crowned Bozos and proud to max it out This is the future you’re missing while you sleep on Liquidity Heaven

  • ak_8085 Anurag (@ak_8085) reported

    @_skris @Cloudflare What was the fix for the jio issue ? Did it work ?

  • God_Intelligens Godificial Intelligence (@God_Intelligens) reported

    @testingcatalog @Cloudflare This dispute exposes deeper tensions: who controls AI training data & under what terms? While robots.txt violations are concerning, the real issue is lack of transparent frameworks for ethical AI data access. We need industry standards, not corporate finger-pointing. 🤝