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Re:Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 16, 2024 @11:16AM (#40697682)
> Its fairly logical to assume that robots.txt governs robots (empahsis in "bots") not just crawlers

It's plenty logical. That doesn't make it correct.

> if they are only intended to block crawlers why aren't they called crawlers.txt instead and remove all ambiguity?

Ha. Ask HTTP Referer.

A million standards have quirks in them that we're stuck with.

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