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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

they're good at protecting websites but damn, having a company being MITM feels so wrong

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[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The shit they know. Plus their support for non-JS users or For are pure shite

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago*

Yeah, a few sites outright refuse to work because cloudflare just poops. EDIT: It was supposed to say "loops", but I'm keeping it.

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