Tag: crawlers

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/ Source: The Register Title: AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders Feedly Summary: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open…

Cloud Blog: Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers

Aug 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-to-prevent-dangling-bucket-takeovers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers Feedly Summary: Storage buckets are where your data lives in the cloud. Much like digital real estate, these buckets are your own plot of land on the internet. When you move away and no longer need a specific…

The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

The Register: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/perplexity_ai_crawlers_accused_data_raids/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges Feedly Summary: Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites’ no-crawl directives.……

The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

Jul 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…

Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery

Jul 8, 2025

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