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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by itsdesmond on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:29AM (#44787198)
No one is tryinna regulate your mother sending you to the corner for some eggs. This is about massive businesses creating massive volumes of web traffic. We all know yo mommas business is massive, but it certainly isn’t digital.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by dang on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:14PM (#44790196)
Whoa, please don't post like this. We end up banning accounts that do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by itsdesmond on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:52PM (#44792234)
Aw, alright. I thought it was a funny way to make the point and I figured the yo momma structure was traditional enough to not be taken as a proper insult. Heard tho.
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Re:Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade... by dang on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:10AM (#44808294)
Thanks for this. Now that you explain your intent, I see the joke. Unfortunately, it's too easy for the intent not to come across in these forsaken little text blobs that we're all limited to here. A lot of it boils down to the absence of voice tone and body language.
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