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		JoosToopit on June 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent UA is just a signature a client sends. It's up to the client to use the signature they want to use.

mattigames on June 15, 2024 [–]

And its up to the client to send as many requests as they see fit, it still called a DDOS attack when overdone regardless of the available freedom that the client has to do it.

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