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		kissgyorgy 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers t... Not sure I would consider a user copy-pasting an URL being a bot. Should curl be considered a bot too? What's the difference?

rustc 19 days ago | [–]

> Should curl be considered a bot too? What's the difference?

Perplexity definitely does:

    $ curl -sI https://www.perplexity.ai | head -1
    HTTP/2 403

ipaddr 19 days ago | [–]

It gets blocked in my setup because bots use this as a workaround.

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