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.
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Ignoring the self-promo part of the article, Cloudflare is in big part responsible for all of this. Their home page promotes mostly “AI” tools, they are even offering “pay-per-crawl” to make it a viable business model.

    So while you correctly shit on Perplexity, don’t forget that Cloudflare is even worse enemy and not a friend.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    English
    5·
    2 days ago

    Canceled my Perplexity subscription (that I got for free…lol) after their last shitty scandal.

    Fuck this company.