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Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The amount of folks I see use Opera GX "gaming browser" because some influencer said so...

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    What the fuck is a gaming browser. Browsers show web pages.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It downloads RAM for you, sells your browsing data to major gaming companies, helps you stay on top of your Twitch subs by disabling the ability to block web notifications.

    You know, a gaming browser.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Dude, you forgot that it had built in led control. We all should know by know that gaming = leds

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: it turns out that all those LEDs rely (in Windows at least) on a super-insecure driver written by a hobbyist who last updated it in the mid-2000s and has since disavowed it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Steve didn’t really do his due diligence on that video, a lot of RGB software hasn’t used it for awhile, including one he said do. It certainly used to be a big problem and there’s definitely still holdouts

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    From what I've seen it has a lil sidebar that lets you limit the resources available to it. Also a load of shortcuts to giveaways and storefronts. It's also hideous, as all gamer stuff should be.

    Honestly it gives me more "lowspec" vibes, than "gaming", and there are far better ways to browse on low spec machines.

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