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We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happens again. https://blog.cloudflare.com/fail-small-resilience-plan/

Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Follow our updates here:

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

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. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/