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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.
As such I want to see Perplexity bankrupt.
So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?
Edit: After reading the article, it's both.
He's basically talking about toppling google in terms of ads and saying that users will be fine with the tracking because the ads will be more relevant. There's also a Motorla partnership and it will come pre-installed on their Razr series. There is talks of one with Samsung as well, and they would have zero issue forcing that browser on their customers as long as they get a copy of the data.
That is one major reason I will no longer use a phone that doeent let me easily uninstall their garbage. It is all spyware.
perplexed about the value proposition here
I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.
Testing is doubting anyways, amirite?
I read that as "Perplexed CEO" and it kind of fits IMO.
He is openly and honestly trying to out Google, Google!
Doing well so far...
Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?
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.
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.
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
Maybe he's really drank the kool aid and ACTUALLY thinks people want ads and no privacy. Which then, as an investor, might actually be a giant red flag that he's a complete imbecile.
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.
You are just mistaken about this. They have surveys showing 76% of people say they want personalized ("relevant") ads. Companies think this is something almost everyone wants.
Maybe I am wrong about this.
Personally, I don't want any ads, I'm broke I buy as little as I can get away with.
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.
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
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.
Are we not allowed to talk about Luigi anymore? Is nowhere safe????
Send more blue shells
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".
"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."
And give him free atention? Nah.
i'll take the hit
i hope he gets put up against a wall and shot
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
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.
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.
Which is, according to their cooked market surveys, most people. 76% prefer "relevant" ads.
Have you heard of the term "enshittyfication" ?
Blip. Just like that, they are dead to me. I know our society has decided super invasive data collection for ads is okay... I've decided that is another part of the social contract we need to revisit. With prejudice.
I still haven't come down to terms with ads being accepted
never mind about accepting the things we cannot change, it's time to start changing the things we cannot accept
Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.
Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware
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
You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance
my new one is much wiser
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
Hell to the absolute fuckin' no.
Chrome is already pretty close to this. People still using it are a mystery to me as it is.
There's also Chrome-derivatives and Chromium and whether those could excise the AI spyware and how deep that gets embedded into it.
Fuck Chrome anyways
It's still the most widely used browser, even if it doesn't individually effect you doesn't mean it's not bad
google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.
Well im definitely not gonna use it then. It's also apparently being built on top of Chromium so its not like its a brand new browser engine or anything. I wonder if they even had human programmers work on it, or just let their own AI churn out some slop for them.
Guess I'll cancel my free trial.
capitalism inspiring innovation right before our eyes.
Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?