Related discussion of the original Cloudflare post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

You can have click/troll farms with real humans (going thru VPNs, BOT networks, etc). Even "normal" people who are "paid" (for instance gacha game campaign offering in-game resources for free, that in exchange of a good "review", yes they can link the review with the right account for resource "reward", and it seems it can go down to social networks).

> It appears Cloudflare confused Perplexity with 3-6M daily requests of unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party cloud browser service that Perplexity only occasionally uses for highly specialized tasks (less than 45,000 daily requests). Because Cloudflare has conveniently obfuscated their methodology and declined to answer questions helping our teams understand

This doesn't look great, especially when we look at the attention generated by the original post compared with that one!