Will he be perplexed when his browser fails?
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And I’m happy to let this bro know. I will never use your product. Go suck a cows nipple. Ya bitch.
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
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.
Thats it im only browsing gopher from now on.
Damn, you'd really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?
Nearly half of the country is dumb enough to support Trump. I think he is reading the room.
Never use Perplexity, got it.
I'm old, I don't browse the web on my phone, anyway.
And I used to recommend it to people over ChatGPT. 😭 Because it doesn't require you to log in. Enshittification really is everywhere now.
Ads should be illegal
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.
Brave had a novel solution, but I think it's mostly dead now.
It was all ad based, just you could pay it forward to the site themselves. The problem was that this clean generate any money due to no click through and the target audience wasn't marketable.
Brave attempted to do something along those lines with BAT Never caught on.
So should subtractions!
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.
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
Ads after you buy a ladder: "Yes, you've had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?"
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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...
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.
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 doesnt let me easily uninstall their garbage. It is all spyware.
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 main goal of tech startups is to get take investors money and run away, so of course their rhetoric is aimed to investors.
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
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I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.
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inb4 they try to take control of Chromium
Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware
and they are your closest friends
Haha yup the amount of times I've tried to educate friends/family only to feel like banging my head against a brick wall would be more effective are far too many
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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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.
never mind about accepting the things we cannot change, it's time to start changing the things we cannot accept
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Hell to the absolute fuckin' no.
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
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Very cool stuff, Mr. Technofascist!
I read that as "Perplexed CEO" and it kind of fits IMO.
I'm morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
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.
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perplexed about the value proposition here
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
capitalism inspiring innovation right before our eyes.
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
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.
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