984 Requests Said They Were Perplexity. None Could Prove It.
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This morning I told my own website that I was ClaudeBot. It took one line of curl and a user agent string copied out of Anthropic's own documentation. Three requests to one article page. Then I opened my dashboard: Anthropic, ClaudeBot, training — 1,698 requests had become 1,701, last seen at 09:22…
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- 2026-09-06 01:32 · DEV Community — AI
984 Requests Said They Were Perplexity. None Could Prove It.