Black Hat AI!

bartosimpsonio

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These techniques are straight out of the BHW cookbook!!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplex...rawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

 

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Extremely black hat. Wonder how long they were getting away with scraping tonnes of content with that little back door trick

 

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They all do it. Amazons AI crawler rolled in with a ghosted user agent and practically DDosed this guy’s Git server . https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/

 

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I know they are doing it, but I did not expect the first one to be exposed to be Perplexity.
How soon will we see 'clockers' specifically built to pollute AI scrapers—like providing wrong answers to AI bots on purpose?

That seems like a good business.

 

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Even google deny robots.txt directive.

Who cares!!! attitude everywhere in the industry.