Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads

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• CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No thanks

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• beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He is openly and honestly trying to out Google, Google!

  Doing well so far…

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Once it becomes popular … then they’ll play down their focus on wanting to track everything … dress it up in pretty colours and some kind of swoosh … then sell it as a feel good product … five years later everyone is complaining that they are being tracked and that the company is using hyper personalized ads

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• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Guess I’ll cancel my free trial.

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• bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this is pretty funny, a great example of how tech startups only care about selling their stuff to investors.

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• fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh, word?

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To be fair, they’re targeting people who WANT to be tracked, in return for personalized ads. If that’s not you (or me), just ignore their entire platform.

  Bold move. Let’s see how it pans out.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Have you heard of the term “enshittyfication” ?

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