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Working on #WebVR #LLM #blockchain | ex-mozilla | Googe Developer Expert - Web

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Not preplexity

blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
rabimba.bsky.social
Apart from perplexity, others seem to honor it (or used to).
Perplexity on the other side

rknight.me/blog/perplex...

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • Robb Knight
Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not
rknight.me
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
rabimba.bsky.social
It was 22nd 4:40 PM.
It should have been recorded. I'll send you the link when I have it

But also can share the slides :D
May 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
rabimba.bsky.social
If you are there after IO. I'll give a talk in GDE Summit on things we did with Gemma :)

Would love to have you there if you are still around.

rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/gde_s...
May 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
rabimba.bsky.social
And THAT IS WHEN I got to know FOR THE FIRST TIME that apparently I am the Outstanding PhD Award Winner for Computer Science Department for last two consecutive years :P

www.uh.edu/nsm/computer...
Awards
www.uh.edu
May 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM