Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade...
by JimDabell on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:51AM
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Hacker News has collectively answered this question by consistently voting up the archive.is links in the comments of every paywalled article posted here.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade...
by giantrobot on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:02PM
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New sites have collectively decided to require people use those services because they can't fathom not enshittifying everything until it's an unusable transaction hellscape.
I never really minded magazine ads or even television ads. They might have tried to make me associate boobs with a brand of soda but they didn't data mine my life and track me everywhere. I'd much rather have old fashioned manipulation than pervasive and dangerous surveillance capitalism.