Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
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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Why would I use such a browser?
Because some influencer say you should. Works this way for too many people.
The amount of folks I see use Opera GX "gaming browser" because some influencer said so...
What the fuck is a gaming browser. Browsers show web pages.
From what I've seen it has a lil sidebar that lets you limit the resources available to it. Also a load of shortcuts to giveaways and storefronts. It's also hideous, as all gamer stuff should be.
Honestly it gives me more "lowspec" vibes, than "gaming", and there are far better ways to browse on low spec machines.
I'm still shocked at how many seemingly tech-literate people use and defend Brave because of influencers.
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.
"Because it really gets you, y'know?"
They've partnered with Motorla and probably Samsung to have it pre-installed. And a lot of people stick to the default one.
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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because it has AI omg this will make our lives so much easier for real
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... /s