
“Unable to scrape Reddit directly, they mask their identities, hide their locations, and disguise their web scrapers to steal Reddit content from Google Search,” Lee said. “Perplexity is a willing customer of at least one of these scrapers, choosing to buy stolen data rather than enter into a lawful agreement with Reddit itself.”
On Reddit, Perplexity pushed back on Reddit’s claims that Perplexity ignored requests to license Reddit content.
“Untrue. Whenever anyone…

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