Qui davo conto del fatto che TIME servisse pubblicità diverse ai bot AI rispetto agli umani perchè dice che è un “comportamento ingannevole”Adesso perplexity li blocca, il che significa che si presenta ai siti web con uno user agent come se fosse un browser usato da un umano, ingannando la fonte, ma questo comportamento ingannevole evidentemente secondo loro, invece, è ammissibile…Less than two weeks after Digiday reported that Time had started serving ads inside the markdown versions of its webpages, aimed at AI agents rather than human readers, Perplexity confirmed that it blocked those ads from influencing its own search index. In an emailed statement to Digiday, Perplexity’s chief communications officer Jesse Dwyer said the company works “continuously” to protect users from deceptive practices, sponsored or not, and warned that publishers who deploy “deceptive advertising like markdown ads” risk a reputational downgrade in Perplexity’s proprietary search index, including a hit to their trust score.