Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoIt isn’t a war zone, it’s a gated community where the guards have suddenly decided that any vehicle made after 2020 is full of thieves without bothering to consult the residents or giving them the ability to opt out of having their dinner guests murdered for driving a vehicle the security guards don’t like.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
So you’re a cloudflare customer and you wish they would let the perplexity traffic multiplier through to your website? You can leave cloudflare any time you want.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
🙄You’re an Internet user and you don’t like AI so you can leave the Internet anytime you want.
That’s not a good argument, what about the users who want to block mass scraping but want to make their content available to users who are using these tools? Cloudflare exists because it allows legitimate traffic, that websites want, and blocks mass scraping which the sites don’t want.
If they’re not able to distinguish mass scraping traffic from user created traffic then they’re blocking legitimate users that some website owners want.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Yes your “leave the internet any time you want” strawman is not a good argument.
If allowing perplexity while blocking the bad guys is so easy why not find a service that does that for you?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The topic is that Cloudflare is classifying human sourced traffic as bot sourced traffic.
Saying “Just don’t use it” is a straw man. It doesn’t change the fact that Cloudflare, one of the largest CDNs representing a significant portion of the websites and services in the US, is misclassifying traffic.
I used mine intentionally while knowing it was a straw man, did you?
The same with “if it’s so easy, just don’t use it” hopefully for obvious reasons.
This affects both the customers of Cloudflare (the web service owners) as well as the users of the web services. A single site/user opting out doesn’t change the fact that a large portion of the Internet is classifying human sourced traffic as bot sourced traffic.