Perplexity blocks Time’s ads served to AI agents, calling them ‘deceptive’
August 11, 2026 Time is selling ads to AI agents. Perplexity refuses to let them work. Less than two weeks after Digiday reported that Time had started serving ads inside the markdown versions of its webpages, aimed at AI agents rather than human readers, Perplexity confirmed that it blocked those ads from influencing its own search index. ...