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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
You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance
my new one is much wiser
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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
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.
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
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Nah, I won’t give them my clicks, nor my data.
Nor my axe!
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.
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 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.
Obviously, but it’s still not something you want getting out. Like you’d tell your clients at a vendor dinner but wouldn’t put it in an email or video conference.
You are just mistaken about this. They have surveys showing 76% of people say they want personalized (“relevant”) ads. Companies think this is something almost everyone wants.
Maybe I am wrong about this.
Personally, I don’t want any ads, I’m broke I buy as little as I can get away with.
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.
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.
capitalism inspiring innovation right before our eyes.
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?
If you had read the article, it’s going to come pre-installed on Moto and probably Samsung phones.
So user error, should have got Linux.
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.
Ads after you buy a ladder: “Yes, you’ve had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?”
Based on your former shopping, here’s what other shoppers have looked.
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
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
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”.
“Also, may he be abducted by aliens, whisked away to a distant galaxy, and put on permanent display in an alien zoo as an example of the greed of homo sapiens.”
And give him free atention? Nah.
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?
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Send more blue shells
Ok then say it.
ghoul
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
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.
