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For what its worth, this statement here regarding Perplexity-User: > Since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules. ...has
by whilenot-dev 1y ago
For what its worth, this statement here regarding Perplexity-User:
> Since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules.
...has been added sometime between 30.01.2025[0] and 07.02.2025[1], and makes it sound like robots.txt was not respected by that bot anyways.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130164401/https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots https://web.archive.org/web/20250130164401/https://docs.perp...
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250207113929/https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots https://web.archive.org/web/20250207113929/https://docs.perp...
- simonw 1y agoGreat catch there.