The author has misunderstood when the perplexity user agent applies.
Web site owners shouldn’t dictate what browser users can access their site with - whether that’s chrome, firefox, or something totally different like perplexity.
When retrieving a web page _for the user_ it’s appropriate to use a UA string that looks like a browser client.
If perplexity is collecting training data in bulk without using their UA that’s a different thing, and they should stop. But this article doesn’t show that.
Web site owners shouldn’t dictate what browser users can access their site with - whether that’s chrome, firefox, or something totally different like perplexity.
When retrieving a web page _for the user_ it’s appropriate to use a UA string that looks like a browser client.
If perplexity is collecting training data in bulk without using their UA that’s a different thing, and they should stop. But this article doesn’t show that.