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0 pointshombre_fatal9mo ago0 comments

Taking down the content because you're annoyed that people are asking questions about it via an LLM interface doesn't seem like you're winning.

It's also a gift to your competitors.

You're certainly free to do it. It's just a really faint example of you being "in control" much less winning over LLM agents: Ok, so the people who cared about your content can't access it anymore because you "got back" at Perplexity, a company who will never notice.

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ipaddr9mo ago

It could be my server keeps going down because of llms agents keep requesting pages from my lyric site. Removing that site allowed other sites to remain up. True story.

Who cares if perplexity will never notice. Or competitors get an advantage. It is a negative for users using perplexity or visiting directly because the content doesn't exist.

That's the world perplexity and others are creating. They will be able to pull anything from the web but nothing will be left.

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ipaddr9mo ago

It could be my server keeps going down because of llms agents keep requesting pages from my lyric site. Removing that site allowed other sites to remain up. True story.

Who cares if perplexity will never notice. Or competitors get an advantage. It is a negative for users using perplexity or visiting directly because the content doesn't exist.

That's the world perplexity and others are creating. They will be able to pull anything from the web but nothing will be left.

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