Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 10 hours agoSo 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 9 hours 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 9 hours 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 8 hours 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.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
LOL “human sourced traffic” oh the tragedy. I for one am rooting for perplexity to go out of business forever.