Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
I wrote yesterday about blocking AI bots on the server and today I have been doing the same for MacStories. Once it was setup Federico noticed that he was still able to get a quote from a specific MacStories post from Perplexity. I figured that this might be because they index pages (they are a search engine, of sorts) then I realised I had a perfect blog post I could test this on. Here's the changes I've done related to this on my site:
March 30th: Started disallowing PerplexityBot, and others,...
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