> your web browser isn't between other users and the website, turning 500 views into one.
There are a lot of people making this assumption about the way Perplexity is working, but there is no evidence in TFA that Perplexity is caching its ad hoc requests.
And even if they were, what's left unsaid is why it even would matter if 500 views turned into one. It matters either because of lost ad revenue or lost ability to track the users' behavior. Personally, I'm okay with moving past that phase of the internet's life and look forward to new business models that aren't built around getting large numbers of "views".
There are a lot of people making this assumption about the way Perplexity is working, but there is no evidence in TFA that Perplexity is caching its ad hoc requests.
And even if they were, what's left unsaid is why it even would matter if 500 views turned into one. It matters either because of lost ad revenue or lost ability to track the users' behavior. Personally, I'm okay with moving past that phase of the internet's life and look forward to new business models that aren't built around getting large numbers of "views".