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PERPLEXITY AI IS LYING ABOUT THEIR USER AGENT

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Perplexity AI claims to use a user agent called PerplexityBot, but it actually uses a generic Chrome user agent. It is likely doing this to scrape content from websites that disallow scraping in their robots.txt files.