I appreciate him saying it upfront. Makes it easy to stay away from all of their products.
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Beep boop, this is your browser speaking. You have stated that you need a browser that spies on you more one (1) times.
This is really good information, now I know to avoid their browser like the plague.
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
Believes it, or is just spinning it that way?
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.
Enough already.
That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.
Before even reading the article, I’m thinking they’re maybe selling it as a good thing along the lines of “do you hate to see those ads you don’t care about? Taking space on your apps and pages? What if there was a way to make them actually useful! Make them feel like content, just for you!”
I feel like I have to point out that this is horrific either way
Edit: I actually talked about this quickly with a few almost tech-illiterate friends and they were honestly excited about that at first, when I didn’t preface it with my reasoned disdain for it or the privacy implications… so despite the way we here react to it, I’m almost sure this will sell amazingly.
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In other news, Perplexity has signed a deal with Motorola to have the browser preinstalled on their phones.
Where is the hacktivism when you need it? These companies need to be gutted from the inside out.
Begin, the AI wars have.
And people would voluntarily use this browser …why?
Wow! I’ve always wanted a browser that would track everything about me! /s
Gotta get me some of that.
These fuckers are just so delusional and out of touch with reality. Personalized ads my ass. We’ve been promised those for decades but pretty much all the ads I see on YouTube are from major retail chains with precisely zero relevance to me. They will show the ads of whoever pays for them. Your personal preferences are only relevant when it comes to targeting you with political propaganda.
As a Lemmy user, I’m betting you do things differently than most people in general.
My friends and teenage children get very obviously targeted ads in the crap they do. I think maybe we are more discrete or something?
Oh, time to stop using any perplexity products
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
That’s not gonna be hard, fortunately.
Hey, look for that browser to fail instantly as no one will use it.
“Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need.”
It’s a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal
