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
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
Believes it, or is just spinning it that way?
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I'd immediately not want it any more.
Enough already.
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.
Depends, if it is an ad for an orbital laser that targets marketing executives it might work on me.
You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I'd immediately not want it any more.
proceeds to show something you don't want at all
Exactly!
I appreciate him saying it upfront. Makes it easy to stay away from all of their products.
Beep boop, this is your browser speaking. You have stated that you need a browser that spies on you more one (1) times.
6?
But then users use it anyway for some reason. Many people care so little.
Most people are unintelligent sacks of meat, not much critical thought about what they do runs through their minds.
It is legislation's work.
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don't even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
Because there is legal precedent that says shareholders come first.
You can blame Dodge for this. Yes, that Dodge.
Too bad, that long-term users still kind of decide the fate of the company (as shareholders at some point realize that their share probably is not worth it).
I'm really keen to see when this happens to Tesla, I'm thinking about shorting the stock, it's so vastly overvalued, and there's strong competition and sales are crashing everywhere (because of too much Nazi)
So to ensure that a company is more likely to be customer focused, rather than shareholder focused, it's likely a good idea to only go for companies not listed on the american stock exchanges?
Oh, look, the reason Dodge reliability is garbage.
That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.
Before even reading the article, I’m thinking they’re maybe selling it as a good thing along the lines of “do you hate to see those ads you don’t care about? Taking space on your apps and pages? What if there was a way to make them actually useful! Make them feel like content, just for you!”
I feel like I have to point out that this is horrific either way
Edit: I actually talked about this quickly with a few almost tech-illiterate friends and they were honestly excited about that at first, when I didn’t preface it with my reasoned disdain for it or the privacy implications.. so despite the way we here react to it, I’m almost sure this will sell amazingly.
This is really good information, now I know to avoid their browser like the plague.
I would like for the people, who come up with these ideas, to dogfood their own product. Actually force them to try their own medicine. It would be a single digit percentage of acceptance then
You grossly underestimate how much some people truly love the idea of highly personalized ads. People who believe they are the best possible outcome and cannot fathom why anyone would have any problem with them at all. That's who you are asking to dogfood this product, and they would and would find no issues with it.
Where is the hacktivism when you need it? These companies need to be gutted from the inside out.
Begin, the AI wars have.
I think I read somewhere they want to buy Chrome from Google if they are forced to sell. So not many changes, just switching owners who ultimately do the same thing.
i’m not a Chrome user, so screw both google and perplexity.
OpenAI also wants to buy Chrome.
And Yahoo, lol
In other news, Perplexity has signed a deal with Motorola to have the browser preinstalled on their phones.
Thx, for the heads up. The only reason I'm not typing this on a motorola g85 is because I got distracted when I was ordering it. Now I've got to search for a different brand.
And people would voluntarily use this browser ....why?
Wow! I've always wanted a browser that would track everything about me! /s
Gotta get me some of that.
Do all these dickheads go to a school to learn the same specific hand gestures?
Girfters emulating each other
Oh yeah I'm definitely going to use that. He's a marketing genius.
Oh, time to stop using any perplexity products
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
That's not gonna be hard, fortunately.
First time I hear about this actually so...
These fuckers are just so delusional and out of touch with reality. Personalized ads my ass. We've been promised those for decades but pretty much all the ads I see on YouTube are from major retail chains with precisely zero relevance to me. They will show the ads of whoever pays for them. Your personal preferences are only relevant when it comes to targeting you with political propaganda.
I don't fucking want personalized ads no matter how relevant they are to me. I only have so much money to buy stupid materialistic bullshit and once that's gone all an ad can do is make me want something I can't have. Ads are just trying to make you discontent.
They just want you to spend more money in a failed attempt to be happier adding complexity to my life when I'd rather just be content with simplicity. And they work really fucking well on my wife. I automatically distrust anything someone is paying money to show me.
As a Lemmy user, I'm betting you do things differently than most people in general.
My friends and teenage children get very obviously targeted ads in the crap they do. I think maybe we are more discrete or something?
They don't want people to use it. They want Google to give them a big bag of money so they can integrate it into chrome.
It's a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal
Can't sell reams and reams of customer data if you don't have any customers.
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Chrome does that already anyway.
What a stupid name for a company.
Dumb and dumber will love it, ts,ts,ts. Some nerds...
Nothing wrong with typescript
Haha..I can see this guy saying out loud to his friends..."and while everyone else is moving towards privacy I'll do the exact opposite, but to the extreme. Don't look at me like that Kyle, I've already sold my soul. We're gonna be so rich."
His only friends care about money. Everyone else walked away.
The selling point is that our product gives you AIDS, for free!
"Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don't have on crap you don't need."
Well no thanks
I am perplexed at he. Why the hell would I want this?
Fucking Perplexity can't give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it's something worth something, it's hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there's only 20k of these and it's first come first served. Still haven't used their shit and actually don't know anyone who does.
When you quit talking to potential customers and go right for the unhinged investors.
Is Chrome not doing exactly this?
Chrome doesn't really collect much data directly. It just has no protection against all the trackers on nearly every website that do.
Red Flag
Ok how long after this browser goes live till we hear it being used by the FBI to track criminals.
I have gotten a year Perplexity pro subscription for free somewhen in summer last year. Guess, I won’t even think about split second about paying for this service or even using it after my free year has run its course.
Damn, and I really liked them too. It's the most accurate LLM I've tried and it even accurately cites sources as well (unlike Copilot, which just makes shit up and then cites an unrelated source).
some people will see this as a feature to be desired, not a bug
Jesus, that escalated quickly...
In mean it's what Google is doing for years now. Not saying it's good by any means but it's nothing new anymore.
P.T. Barnum in his grave getting a full on chubby for all the suckers that go for this shit
A caveman-like idea from a caveman-lookin' mfer.
Perplexity ? More like Debility.
Why would I use such a browser?
The amount of folks I see use Opera GX "gaming browser" because some influencer said so...
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.