rknightuk

Then they should just say that outright instead of pretending they right thing.

But they don’t need to because it’s been summarised already. So I get nothing while perplexity make more money.

I wouldn’t because I have ethics.

No, it’s not justification enough to do it.

It’s not retrieving a web page though is it? It’s retrieving the content then manipulating it. Perplexity isn’t a web browser.

Author here. The page I asked it to summarize was posted after I implemented all blocking on the server (and robots.txt). So they should not have had any cached data.

A blog post follow up to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38880713

Author of the post here. Although Netcraft have said it was a false positive, I’ve yet to hear back from Digital Ocean so as it stands, my droplet is still going to be nuked in 24 hours as far as I know.

You're right it was more of a project for me try out some stuff rather than having a plan to release an app for everyone.

Pull request has been merged and released as version 1.1.1 https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/releases/tag/1.1....

I wasn't happy with the use of "silently" but I kept forgetting to remove it. It's now been updated. Thanks for the feedback.