And I’m happy to let this bro know. I will never use your product. Go suck a cows nipple. Ya bitch.
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Submitted 11 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.zip
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Cocopanda@futurology.today 11 months ago
RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Thats it im only browsing gopher from now on.
2910000@lemmy.world 11 months 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
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
ad tracking is only as personalized as the company running the ads
If I’m advertising fake nails, it’s personalized if you like fake nails and I advertise to fake nail fans, but if I advertise to all femme people - then it’s no longer personalized, and advertisers tend to do the latter.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months 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…
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
inb4 they try to take control of Chromium
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
this is pretty funny, a great example of how tech startups only care about selling their stuff to investors.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Damn, you’d really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nearly half of the country is dumb enough to support Trump. I think he is reading the room.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never use Perplexity, got it.
I’m old, I don’t browse the web on my phone, anyway.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’m just shocked Motorola is still ticking along, making cell phones.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
They make some solid devices
Delphia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ads should be illegal
jecxjo@midwest.social 11 months 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.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Brave had a novel solution, but I think it’s mostly dead now.
mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
Brave attempted to do something along those lines with BAT Never caught on.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So should subtractions!
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Very cool stuff, Mr. Technofascist!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 11 months ago
i think some form of advertising is useful no matter the structure of your society: if you have a cool idea for a new product, getting the word out is an important way of making it a reality
what we don’t need is the constant, and ever-present repetitive drone of advertising mundane things that you already know about
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ads after you buy a ladder: “Yes, you’ve had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?”
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Based on your former shopping, here’s what other shoppers have looked.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 months 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 11 months ago
So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?
ogler@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
perplexed about the value proposition here
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
He is openly and honestly trying to out Google, Google!
Doing well so far…
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I read that as “Perplexed CEO” and it kind of fits IMO.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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 11 months ago
If you had read the article, it’s going to come pre-installed on Moto and probably Samsung phones.
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Testing is doubting anyways, amirite?
fubarx@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you heard of the term “enshittyfication” ?
LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
the main goal of tech startups is to get take investors money and run away
arken@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Maybe he’s really drank the kool aid and ACTUALLY thinks people want ads and no privacy.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 11 months 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.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Guess I’ll cancel my free trial.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sent to the glue factory?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Send more blue shells?
celeryfc@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Send more blue shells
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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 11 months 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.”
MITM0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok then say it.
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
i’ll take the hit
i hope he gets put up against a wall and shot
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 11 months ago
Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.
the_q@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?
_core@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Will he be perplexed when his browser fails?