Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.zip
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glowie@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
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
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You obviously need a privacy-conscious fiance
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
and they are your closest friends
glowie@infosec.pub 2 months ago
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
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?
arken@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
uienia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The message is aimed at his customers (ie. his advertisers), not for the potential users of the browser.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Maybe he’s really drank the kool aid and ACTUALLY thinks people want ads and no privacy.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
the main goal of tech startups is to get take investors money and run away
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never use Perplexity, got it.
I’m old, I don’t browse the web on my phone, anyway.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I used to recommend it to people over ChatGPT. 😭 Because it doesn’t require you to log in. Enshittification really is everywhere now.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ads should be illegal
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So should subtractions!
jecxjo@midwest.social 2 months ago
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.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brave had a novel solution, but I think it’s mostly dead now.
mattyroses@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Brave attempted to do something along those lines with BAT Never caught on.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ads after you buy a ladder: “Yes, you’ve had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?”
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Based on your former shopping, here’s what other shoppers have looked.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Testing is doubting anyways, amirite?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If you had read the article, it’s going to come pre-installed on Moto and probably Samsung phones.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Damn, you’d really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nearly half of the country is dumb enough to support Trump. I think he is reading the room.
the_q@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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”.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“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.”
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
i’ll take the hit
i hope he gets put up against a wall and shot
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sent to the glue factory?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Send more blue shells?
celeryfc@lemm.ee 2 months ago
[deleted]gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Send more blue shells
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok then say it.
Photuris@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.
drspod@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
ghoul
2910000@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
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.
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For the last time I don’t want Jenna Haze shower curtains!!!
raltoid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I read that as “Perplexed CEO” and it kind of fits IMO.
LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So it’s not going to be available in the EU and UK? That’s fine.
As I understand it, the GDPR would require explicit consent from the subject before this data could be gathered in the first place, with some significant fines if breached.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?
st3ph3n@midwest.social 2 months ago
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
Linktank@lemmy.today 2 months ago
“Nobody liked that.”
CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
No thanks
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Very cool stuff, Mr. Technofascist!
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 2 months ago
Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.
_core@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Will he be perplexed when his browser fails?
ogler@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
perplexed about the value proposition here
Cocopanda@futurology.today 2 months ago
And I’m happy to let this bro know. I will never use your product. Go suck a cows nipple. Ya bitch.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I don’t know what Perplexity is but I know I don’t want it.
Let me guess, two guys in a garage, both Linked In "CEO"s, strapping more spyware to Chromium?
I even went to the website. It doesn’t what they are, but it’s something to do with AI, which figures…
Delphia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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.