Wired Confirms Perplexity Is Bypassing Efforts by Websites to Block Its Web Crawler
Last week, Federico and I asked Robb Knight to do what he could to block web crawlers deployed by artificial intelligence companies from scraping MacStories. Robb had already updated his own site’s robots.txt file months ago, so that’s the first thing he did for MacStories. However, robots.txt only works if a company’s web crawler is