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Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company - 9to5Mac
Perplexity has long been accused of bypassing anti-scraping measures. A new report shows that it may actually be getting worse.
The issue with Perplexity’s web crawling practices first came to light in June 2024, when Wired and other media outlets accused the company of ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol, and pulling content from their websites. It wasn’t long before other publications started accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping, with The New York Times and the BBC even issuing legal threats. But to Wired and many other publishers, that’s a distinction without a difference because visiting a URL and pulling the information from it to summarize the text sure looks a whole lot like scraping if it’s done thousands of times a day.
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