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

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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• LuckyPierre@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?

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• Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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”.

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.”

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Ok then say it.

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  • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i’ll take the hit

    i hope he gets put up against a wall and shot

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• Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.

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• glowie@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance

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• HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.

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• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Guess I’ll cancel my free trial.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• the_q@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ghoul

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• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?

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• st3ph3n@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.

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• saltnotsugar@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For the last time I don’t want Jenna Haze shower curtains!!!

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• Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Nobody liked that.”

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• CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No thanks

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, word?

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