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

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

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Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
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  • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m just shocked Motorola is still ticking along, making cell phones.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      They make some solid devices

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    deleted by creator

  • glowie@infosec.pub
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    Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware

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      deleted by creator

      • glowie@infosec.pub
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        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

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      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

      • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
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        You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          my new one is much wiser

  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Oh, word?

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    ghoul

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    And they want to buy Chrome

    Hell to the absolute fuckin’ no.

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      Chrome is already pretty close to this. People still using it are a mystery to me as it is.

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        There’s also Chrome-derivatives and Chromium and whether those could excise the AI spyware and how deep that gets embedded into it.

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          That’s been a problem all along and one reason why I’ve never advised chrome alternatives unless someone is demanding to use Chrome over anything else. Firefox and probably 50 different forks of it would be superior in every way, and then maybe… Opera? I don’t even know anymore. Firefox is the only one holding things together.

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      Fuck Chrome anyways

      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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        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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      That actually sounds like a good thing. Google has only been going down this exact path anyways with Chrome, at least if this happened it would make headlines and more people would wake up and leave that nightmare browser.

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    No thanks

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    capitalism inspiring innovation right before our eyes.

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

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      That’s not what the restraining order says.

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        “Does Jenna Haze still have a restraining order on me”

        Damnit! More naked pictures!

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    Oh just what I wanted. Perplexing,ayoooo

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    “Nobody liked that.”

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    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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    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.

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      tbh i’ll just keep using perplexity without using the browser, still firefox with ublock for me

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        Nah, I won’t give them my clicks, nor my data.

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      I still haven’t come down to terms with ads being accepted

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      never mind about accepting the things we cannot change, it’s time to start changing the things we cannot accept

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    Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.

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    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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