The behavior that TFA is complaining about is that when the user drops a link to a site into Perplexity it is able to summarize the content of that link. This i

The behavior that TFA is complaining about is that when the user drops a link to a site into Perplexity it is able to summarize the content of that link. This isn't about the discoverability aspect of Perplexity, they're specifically complaining that the ad hoc "summarize this post" requests don't respect robots.txt [0]. That's what I'm arguing in favor of and that's the behavior that TFA is attacking. [0] Which, incidentally, is entirely normal. robots.txt is for the web crawler that indexes, not for ad hoc requests.