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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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just take a snapshot of your website... then make all links to your website link to that snapshot, and turn your server off.
Oh, well, it's okay if it suits for you. Just not at all an alternative to cloudflare.
I have an alternative to cloudflare, it's sitting in my living room and it's called a raspberry pi.