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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

Words cannot describe how much I hate this person

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

they cant get their ai to check a box that says "I am not a robot"? I'd think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task. And robots.txt files were basically always voluntary compliance anyway.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cloudflare actually fully fingerprints your browser and even sells that data. Thats your IP, TLS, operating system, full browser environment, installed extensions, GPU capabilities etc. It's all tracked before the box even shows up, in fact the box is there to give the runtime more time to fingerprint you.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah and the worst part is it doesn't fucking work for the one thing it's supposed to do.

The only thing it does is stop the stupidest low effort scrapers and forces the good ones to use a browser.

[–] 5gruel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Recaptcha v2 does way more than check if the box was checked.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27299487

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

I hate that these bots ruin my read it later app. :(

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago

Oh no!

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Here comes the ridiculous offer to buy Google chrome with money they don't have: easy delicious scraping directly from the user source

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Just buy cloudflare duh

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can’t get over their CEO that looks like a nine year old. Not sure what it is about him

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is there some simply deployable PHP honeytrap for AI crawlers?

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[–] dzajew@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Cry me a river

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gee that's a real removed ain't it perplexity?

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