Where is the hacktivism when you need it? These companies need to be gutted from the inside out.
Begin, the AI wars have.
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
Submitted 6 hours ago by PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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4am@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
Why would I use such a browser?
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Because some influencer say you should. Works this way for too many people.
mat@linux.community 6 hours ago
The amount of folks I see use Opera GX “gaming browser” because some influencer said so…
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
An influencer’s review only makes me wary of a product and makes me question their motives.
But I guess others don’t see it that way, or they wouldn’t be doing it.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
“Because it really gets you, y’know?”
raltoid@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They’ve partnered with Motorla and probably Samsung to have it pre-installed.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Once they are bought out by the singular mega corporation you will have only few choices left.
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Learn to love their products
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Sit idle in the dust because without their product you cannot partake in society.
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Join an OpenClan and become a technomage
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blinx615@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I imagine all of this data collection would greatly improve AI around browser use? That could be a feature with enough draw in the consumer space.
Rich CEOs will want all their employees using it and only web apps so that they can try to use that data to replace them. Their perplexity dashboard will have a list of all their employees, AI’s fine-tuned on that employee’s data.
The future is bright… :-\
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
I think I read somewhere they want to buy Chrome from Google if they are forced to sell. So not many changes, just switching owners who ultimately do the same thing.
i’m not a Chrome user, so screw both google and perplexity.
MdRuckus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
OpenAI also wants to buy Chrome.
postnataldrip@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
Believes it, or is just spinning it that way?
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.
Enough already.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.
Depends, if it is an ad for an orbital laser that targets marketing executives it might work on me.
LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.
proceeds to show something you don’t want at all
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
Exactly!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
These fuckers are just so delusional and out of touch with reality. Personalized ads my ass. We’ve been promised those for decades but pretty much all the ads I see on YouTube are from major retail chains with precisely zero relevance to me. They will show the ads of whoever pays for them. Your personal preferences are only relevant when it comes to targeting you with political propaganda.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I don’t fucking want personalized ads no matter how relevant they are to me. I only have so much money to buy stupid materialistic bullshit and once that’s gone all an ad can do is make me want something I can’t have. Ads are just trying to make you discontent.
They just want you to spend more money in a failed attempt to be happier adding complexity to my life when I’d rather just be content with simplicity. And they work really fucking well on my wife. I automatically distrust anything someone is paying money to show me.
BossDj@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
As a Lemmy user, I’m betting you do things differently than most people in general.
My friends and teenage children get very obviously targeted ads in the crap they do. I think maybe we are more discrete or something?
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Oh, time to stop using any perplexity products
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
That’s not gonna be hard, fortunately.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
First time I hear about this actually so…
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Chrome does that already anyway.
PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The selling point is that our product gives you AIDS, for free!
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Haha…I can see this guy saying out loud to his friends…“and while everyone else is moving towards privacy I’ll do the exact opposite, but to the extreme. Don’t look at me like that Kyle, I’ve already sold my soul. We’re gonna be so rich.”
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 hours ago
His only friends care about money. Everyone else walked away.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
A caveman-like idea from a caveman-lookin’ mfer.
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well no thanks
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
When you quit talking to potential customers and go right foe the unhinged investors.
zecg@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fucking Perplexity can’t give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it’s something worth something, it’s hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there’s only 20k of these and it’s first come first served. Still haven’t used their shit and actually don’t know anyone who does.
123213217362131231@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Red Flag
thoralf@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
I have gotten a year Perplexity pro subscription for free somewhen in summer last year. Guess, I won’t even think about split second about paying for this service or even using it after my free year has run its course.
vegeta@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I am perplexed at he
marud@piefed.marud.fr 5 hours ago
Perplexity ? More like Debility.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I would like for the people, who come up with these ideas, to dogfood their own product. Actually force them to try their own medicine. It would be a single digit percentage of acceptance then