This is the biggest anti-endorsement I’ve ever heard. Thank you for telling us all that. I will absolutely never be using this browser.
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Submitted 1 day ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.zip
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Archangel1313@lemm.ee 1 day ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Never use Perplexity, got it.
I’m old, I don’t browse the web on my phone, anyway.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And I used to recommend it to people over ChatGPT. 😭 Because it doesn’t require you to log in. Enshittification really is everywhere now.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
Damn, you’d really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Nearly half of the country is dumb enough to support Trump. I think he is reading the room.
glowie@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
my ex fiance loved personalized ads because that’s how she found out about products she wanted and i was like… but you didn’t want it before you knew it existed. you were just living your life perfectly fine and now you’re $20 poorer
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
and they are your closest friends
glowie@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Haha yup the amount of times I’ve tried to educate friends/family only to feel like banging my head against a brick wall would be more effective are far too many
2910000@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
I can’t speak for anyone else but no, I would not be fine with that
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Ads should be illegal
jecxjo@midwest.social 3 hours ago
while I hate ads as much as everyone else what do you propose funds all the sites people use that are high in operating costs? I doubt many people will pay five bucks a month for every site they use. The internet will just be more retro, which I think would be fine.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
So should subtractions!
RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 hours ago
Thats it im only browsing gopher from now on.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Fuck that guy sucking my time with his ads. If I want to buy a ladder I’ll go online, or go to the store and buy one. Once all this world ending shit dies down let’s get rid of “advertising” as an economic concept. We don’t need any more socio/economic engineering, we need humanity and ecology.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ads after you buy a ladder: “Yes, you’ve had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?”
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Based on your former shopping, here’s what other shoppers have looked.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?
arken@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
He’s so out of touch that he believes their users are going to be excited by this.
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said. “Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is purely work-related. It’s not like that’s personal.”
And work-related queries won’t help the AI company build an accurate-enough dossier.
“On the other hand, what are the things you’re buying; which hotels are you going [to]; which restaurants are you going to; what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you,” he explained.
The personal integrity of others is a concept completely lost on this person, it seems.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The personal integrity of others is a concept completely lost on this person, it seems.
If you have no integrity yourself, it’s hard to understand that others do.
uienia@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Maybe he’s really drank the kool aid and ACTUALLY thinks people want ads and no privacy.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
Obviously, but it’s still not something you want getting out. Like you’d tell your clients at a vendor dinner but wouldn’t put it in an email or video conference.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 hours ago
the main goal of tech startups is to get take investors money and run away
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
If you had read the article, it’s going to come pre-installed on Moto and probably Samsung phones.
Valmond@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Testing is doubting anyways, amirite?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Welcome to real life: advertisement is seen as filth. People might tolerate it in exchange for something else, but being “targetted” doesn’t make them less filthy; on the contrary, once you get how it’s being targetted at the expense of your privacy, comparing it with dog shit becomes unfair - because dog shit is less worse.
raltoid@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
I don’t know what Perplexity is but I know I don’t want it.
Let me guess, two guys in a garage, both Linked In "CEO"s, strapping more spyware to Chromium?
I even went to the website. It doesn’t what they are, but it’s something to do with AI, which figures…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Just say “I wish for this man, his ideas and his life work to slide into disregard and irrelevance and become nothing more than a footnote on idiocy”.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Also, may he be abducted by aliens, whisked away to a distant galaxy, and put on permanent display in an alien zoo as an example of the greed of homo sapiens.”
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Do you think this guy would avoid saying a thing? No, he’d come right out and tell you if he wanted you dead. As long as he could provide your with personalised ads in the afterlife.
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
i’ll take the hit
i hope he gets put up against a wall and shot
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Sent to the glue factory?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Send more blue shells?
celeryfc@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Are we not allowed to talk about Luigi anymore? Is nowhere safe???
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Send more blue shells
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok then say it.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
the_q@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
Valmond@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I read that as “Perplexed CEO” and it kind of fits IMO.
LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
So it’s not going to be available in the EU and UK? That’s fine.
As I understand it, the GDPR would require explicit consent from the subject before this data could be gathered in the first place, with some significant fines if breached.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Very cool stuff, Mr. Technofascist!
drspod@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
ghoul
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
inb4 they try to take control of Chromium
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 1 day ago
For the last time I don’t want Jenna Haze shower curtains!!!
Delphia@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
ogler@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours ago
perplexed about the value proposition here
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I’m just shocked Motorola is still ticking along, making cell phones.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
They make some solid devices
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 1 day ago
Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.
st3ph3n@midwest.social 1 day ago
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
Linktank@lemmy.today 1 day ago
“Nobody liked that.”
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 hour ago
And I’m happy to let this bro know. I will never use your product. Go suck a cows nipple. Ya bitch.