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misk to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish • 14 days ago

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

blog.cloudflare.com

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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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misk to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish • 14 days ago
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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.
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    Canceled my Perplexity subscription (that I got for free…lol) after their last shitty scandal.

    Fuck this company.

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