diff --git a/crawlers.py b/crawlers.py
index 47d216461..8b1174e5c 100644
--- a/crawlers.py
+++ b/crawlers.py
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def blocked_user_agent(calling_domain: str, agent_str: str,
             'gptbot', '-ai/', ' ai/', '-ai ', ' ai ', 'aibot', 'chatgpt',
             'anthropic', 'mlbot', 'claude-', 'claudebot', 'ccbot',
             'piplbot', 'oai-search', 'meta-external', 'diffbot',
-            'perplexitybot', 'perplexity‑', 'novaact', 'operator',
+            'perplexity', 'novaact', 'operator',
             'omgili', 'imagesiftbot', 'bytespider', 'amazonbot', 'youbot',
             'petalbot', 'ai2bot', 'allenai', 'firecrawl', 'friendlycrawler',
             'icc-crawler', 'scrapy', 'timpibot', 'velenpublic',