Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall
Kissaki@feddit.org 2 days agoNo, as per the article, their argumentation is that they are not web crawlers generating an index, they are user-action-triggered agents working live for the user.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Except, it’s not a live user hitting 10 sights all the same time, trying to crawl the entire site… Live users cannot do that.
That said, if my robots.txt forbids them from hitting my site, as a proxy, they obey that, right?