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Perplexity-User
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The fetch behind a Perplexity answer. It reads your page so Perplexity can quote it and list it as a source.
When Perplexity-User shows up in your logs
Perplexity is pulling your page into a live answer and citing it as a source.
User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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