Everything is a conspiracy. The elites refuse to wave their increase-manufacturing-capacity-instantly wands.
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Their fetcher (not crawler) has user agent Perplexity-User. Since the fetching is user-requested, it ignores robots.txt . In the article, it discusses how blocking the “Perplexity-User” user agent doesn’t actually work, and how perplexity uses an anonymous user agent to avoid being blocked.
The speed with which you’ll be able to create and disseminate propaganda is mind blowing. Imagine what a 3 letter agency could do with their level of resources.