Edition No. 51 · Wed 12 Aug 2026 · Story 20 of 33

Perplexity blocks Time's ads served to AI agents, calling them 'deceptive'

Digiday

Time served ads inside markdown versions of its pages aimed at AI agents, and Perplexity blocked them as deceptive.

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