Perplexity is a powerful and effective search tool. No invasive ads, surveillance, or other crap. It presents you with a simple, footnoted explanation of exactly what you’re looking for.

The problem, according to a _Wired_ investigation, is that it “is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots…" That’s not cool.

Even worse: Perplexity then plagiarized the story about how Perplexity is a bullshit machine.