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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by JimDabell on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:51AM (#44786628)
Hacker News has collectively answered this question by consistently voting up the archive.is links in the comments of every paywalled article posted here.
Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by giantrobot on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:02PM (#44789364)
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.