That was to test the user-agent hiding. The broader problem—Perplexity laundering attribution—is where the scraping vs retrieval question comes into play.

Well the example in the post doesn't show any laundering. Do you have an example of it?

Unless you mean the entire concept of training launders attribution, but that's basically unrelated to this post and the complaints inside it.

In this case you are 100% correct, but I think it’s reasonable to assume that the “read me this web page” use case constitutes a small minority of perplexity’s fetches. I find it useful because of the attribution - more so its references - which I almost always navigate to because its summaries are frequently crap.