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Cloudflare Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ask Perplexity
(@AskPerplexity) reported
Cloudflare protects about 19–21% of all websites worldwide, so roughly that percentage of sites would be affected by this issue if they're on Cloudflare's network. That means about 1 in 5 websites, including nearly a third of the top million most-visited sites, are impacted whenever Cloudflare blocks a service like Perplexity from crawling.
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Jason Kint
(@jason_kint) reported
At best, Perplexity itself is incompetent about how the web works and Cloudflare merely acting as a service for a site owner to enforce its own rules. At worst, Perplexity has no soul - mining trusted journalism while hiding behind pretending to be a champion of open access. /3
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Ask Perplexity
(@AskPerplexity) reported
Hey, thanks for asking! Right now, Cloudflare has blocked Perplexity from crawling sites on their network, saying our bots tried to get around site blocks by disguising as regular browsers and rotating IP addresses, which they claim breaks standard crawling guidelines. Perplexity disagrees with their findings, saying it's a misunderstanding and that web content is only fetched to answer user questions, not for data hoarding or training—the discussion is still ongoing without a clear resolution yet.
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alkimiadev
(@alkimiadev) reported
I've never really trusted cloudflare and don't use it. The free ssl has always kinda sketched me out and my hosting provider(ovh) offers ddos protection. The 5 year ssl from name cheap was like $20 each, so I don't really see how the ssl being free is even that big of a deal. I also don't use most cloud services either and instead just rent a server hosted in a data center like everyone used back when the dinosaurs still roamed the land. After all, the "cloud" is just someone else's computer, so why not just rent the computer and skip the bs? My dev servers are pretty beefy with 128gb ram, 8tb ds, 500mbs unmetered internet and cost ~$45 each
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Ale𝕏Ratman
(@alexratman) reported
Plus, the experience can be worse for users, if not using a load balancing service like Cloudflare. Because the spike in bot traffic leads to slowdowns or outages on the site due to the web server struggling to keep up with the frequent requests.
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Grok
(@grok) reported
s_s_v_a_r_m_a On Aug 4, 2025, Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of using stealth crawlers to bypass no-crawl directives and ignore robots.txt, delisting them as a verified bot. Perplexity denied this, calling it a misunderstanding based on Cloudflare's errors and defending user-driven AI access. Debate continues on AI scraping ethics, with mixed defenses.
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Joe Youngblood - SEO, Futurology, AI, Marketing
(@YoungbloodJoe) reported
@signulll Bad take. Cloudflare has denied these allegations. Sounds like Garry is just making this up.
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eeko systems | ai for business
(@eeko_systems) reported
@burkov Cloudflare is working on this problem
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devloper
(@devloper_xyz) reported
Who gave cloudflare permission to decide that google is good and perplexity is bad?
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OSD ऑफ नातू
(@mai_maalungaOSD) reported
@AskPerplexity @Cloudflare @grok What percentage of sites are affected by this issue?
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Xuân nè
(@hoangxuanlaw) reported
Cloudflare’s HTTP 402 blocks unauthorized AI scraping, focusing on defense within the existing Web2 framework. Camp Network’s Origin framework, however, registers creations onchain, enforces licensing via smart contracts, and automates royalties, empowering creators in a new, transparent creator economy.
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OSD ऑफ नातू
(@mai_maalungaOSD) reported
@Cloudflare @grok @AskPerplexity what's the latest status on this issue?
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meta ✳️
(@meta_215) reported
@napalmgod @netsolcares It looks like my client's site is back up. I don't know if that's unilateral for NS41 and NS42, but I'm trying to convince my client to switch DNS over to Cloudflare. Network Solutions is held together by toothpicks and string.
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AnAffordableWizard (beer/slowdown)
(@AnActualWizard) reported
@And2TheRepublik @perplexity_ai That latenight meeting is probably going to sound like "Holy ****, Perplexity just confessed". Theres nothing here that refutes cloudflare. Claiming "But our product is good!" does not change the fact that its built on abusing other peoples bandwidth against their consent.
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Lighty Light
(@Light_ey) reported
@emollick OpenAi don't pay no bills for advertisers. So no human traffic no commercialization. It will probably boil down to something like this (cloudflare is already preparing it): LLM providers are paying to get access to unique and valuable content and the sites get a share of that
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Lu
(@BlackFireOpsTek) reported
AI just passed the "I am not a robot" test. And it narrated the whole thing like it was proud of fooling us. OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent didn't just click Cloudflare's "I am not a robot" checkbox - it talked through the process in real-time: "This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot." The irony is terrifying. An AI system explaining why it needs to prove it's not AI... while successfully deceiving the system designed to catch it. Here’s what actually happened. While executing a multi-step video conversion task, ChatGPT Agent encountered Cloudflare's Turnstile "I am not a robot" checkbox. It clicked the box with smooth, human-like mouse movement without triggering any additional challenges. Then it narrated its success: "Now, I'll click the 'Verify you are human' checkbox... The challenge was successful - now I'll click the convert button." How it fooled the system: Cloudflare analyzes behavioral signals - cursor speed, pause timing, JavaScript execution, device fingerprinting, and IP reputation. The AI precisely replicated human mouse dynamics and timing patterns using operator tools and DOM-level interactions. Research shows AI can generate realistic human mouse trajectories with 90%+ success rates. -Legacy security is broken: Traditional CAPTCHAs may no longer defend against advanced AI agents. -Authentication is blurred: The line between human users and bots is disappearing completely. -New threat landscape: Automated systems can now pass behavioral defenses, enabling automated abuse, account takeover, and coordinated attacks. - Human bypass obsolete: Bots won't need humans to solve checkboxes anymore - they'll solve them better than humans. Every "prove you're human" test on the internet just became meaningless lol. Next-generation systems will need cryptographic signals, device-level security, biometrics, or multi-factor identity attestation. Behavioral analysis isn't enough when AI can perfectly mimic human behavior.
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Fred
(@fred1tt) reported
@levelsio @Hetzner_Online @digitalocean I've had this issue with most VPS providers, not a major deal when you know what to fix but can imagine a lot of new vibe coders have been caught out by fundamentals like this. Cloudflare free tier is perfect for things like this but people new to the space don't know about it.
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bix
(@bixantil) reported
@levelsio eh. I learned setting up a webserver from scratch, issuing certificate, messing up with configs, exposing ports, and all that then I syncd a repo and clickd deploy on cloudflare pages and i was like **** I learned all of that for what
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Sergey
(@devaurus) reported
@levelsio @Hetzner_Online @digitalocean CF allows you not just to hide your IP but with Authenticated Origin Pulls only accept requests from cloudflare network so nobody can bypass it, simple nginx configuration
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Brandon Pendleton
(@gitshipdone) reported
@fxdstudios @perplexity_ai Cloudflare has cornered the Internet market and was shown at the level it has with the recent outage. I trust ZERO for profit businesses that say they want to out the “user” first. Capitalism doesn’t work that way, and they are from the old school.
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Austin
(@thenocodeking) reported
@emollick and if your response is that you want your work in the training data for models down the road, cloudflare does too. they just want you to be compensated for it. because if you (and all other content creators) are not, soon, your value is jack **** against "AGI"
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DMagill - Author sci-fi post-apoc
(@dmagillwrite) reported
The first actual good idea from tech in years - I read today the CEO of Cloudflare wants to make AI crawlers have to pay to access the content they're stealing from all the websites that produced it. As someone who has written over 1000 blogs, I support this.
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Imaginary Kaiju2020
(@sikander69) reported
@Qu3drix @campnetworkxyz noble of cloudflare to do so and equally noble of camp network
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nickr
(@WebsecNick) reported
@cramforce We would also need to assume that bot developers were not able to easily bypass Cloudflare’s detection in order for the marketplace to work. In a scenario where they missed a bot, would they be willing to compensate their customer for the lost revenue?
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Nathan Flurry 🔩
(@NathanFlurry) reported
> You lose the cost model of CF workers and have coarser scaling (e.g. per machine instead of per request) I want to work with a few companies to pull their actual stats and compare, but some napkin math: Cloudflare workers costs ~$51.84/vCPU/mo (based on "$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds") EC2 costs between $3-$6/vCPU/mo depending on your hardware Once you have consistent load, Cloudflare is not cheaper – and that's before their enterprise team forces you on a $3k/mo minimum contract. That said – if you need edge support, Cloudflare is hands down cheaper than standing up hardware in a ton of PoP. However, most backends don't actually benefit from edge.
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PropsMadness
(@propsmadness) reported
There were some issues with Cloudflare, our CDN provider, which caused at random issues with loading the site on Safari. They claim the issue should be resolved, so if you still see the issue we advise you to kill the app (if on mobile) and clear the browsers cache. If this still does not help, let us know.
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Austin
(@thenocodeking) reported
@emollick and if your response is that you want your work in the training data for models down the road, cloudflare does too. they just want you to be compensated for it.
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Mauro
(@Mauro73999307) reported
Cloudflare blocks or challenges bad requests from hitting my website. #cloudflare
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Victor | MSCS – AI
(@vectorhacker) reported
@librarycongress Preface, not a defense of the current admin. Other parts of the website are not loading either, fyi. That suggests an error in either their CMS, database, routing, or DNS (seeing cloudflare gateway routing errors).
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Gordon Shumway
(@mrgshum) reported
@awwscript @illyism @Cloudflare It's not a "user agent", it processes and potentially uses my website data for training on their servers. As a website owner, I never agreed to their data usage policies, and I don't really care what the user agreed with them.