Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
Will he be perplexed when his browser fails?
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.
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.
Ads should be illegal
So should subtractions!
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.
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.
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
Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware
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
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
Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
Maybe he's really drank the kool aid and ACTUALLY thinks people want ads and no privacy. Which then, as an investor, might actually be a giant red flag that he's a complete imbecile.
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.
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
Chrome is already pretty close to this. People still using it are a mystery to me as it is.
There's also Chrome-derivatives and Chromium and whether those could excise the AI spyware and how deep that gets embedded into it.
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.
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
I still haven't come down to terms with ads being accepted
I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.
Testing is doubting anyways, amirite?
I read that as "Perplexed CEO" and it kind of fits IMO.
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
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".
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.
Sent to the glue factory?
Send more blue shells?
Are we not allowed to talk about Luigi anymore? Is nowhere safe????
Send more blue shells
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
inb4 they try to take control of Chromium
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.
I'm morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
ghoul
Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?
For the last time I don’t want Jenna Haze shower curtains!!!!
That’s not what the restraining order says.
Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
"Nobody liked that."
No thanks
He is openly and honestly trying to out Google, Google!
Doing well so far...
google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.
Guess I'll cancel my free trial.
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
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.
Have you heard of the term "enshittyfication" ?
Which is, according to their cooked market surveys, most people. 76% prefer "relevant" ads.
Oh just what I wanted. Perplexing,ayoooo
Oh, word?