Companies are so removed from what users want, they only focus on what shareholders want to hear and don’t consider that users will hate it.
That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.
Oh yeah I’m definitely going to use that. He’s a marketing genius.
Is Chrome not doing exactly this?
Chrome is relatively limited in scope compared to, say, a user on an instance of degoogled chromium just using the same Google services along with all the other browsing they do. The extra data that’s gathered is generally going to be things like a little more DNS query information, (assuming your device isn’t already set to default to Google’s DNS server) links you visit that don’t already have Google’s trackers on them (very few) and some general information like when you’re turning on your computer and Chrome is opening up.
The real difference is in how Chrome doesn’t protect you like other browsers do, and it thus makes more of the collection that Google’s services do indirectly, possible.
Perplexity is still being pretty vague here, but if I had to guess, it would essentially just be taking all the stuff that Google would usually get from tracking pixels and ad cookies, and baking that directly in to the browser instead of it relying on individual sites using it.
Jesus, that escalated quickly…
Ok how long after this browser goes live till we hear it being used by the FBI to track criminals.
When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?
Beep boop, this is your browser speaking. You have stated that you need a browser that spies on you more one (1) times.
6?
And people would voluntarily use this browser …why?
because they want ads that serve them things they want I imagine
Dumb and dumber will love it, ts,ts,ts. Some nerds…
Nothing wrong with typescript
some people will see this as a feature to be desired, not a bug
Hey, look for that browser to fail instantly as no one will use it.
This is really good information, now I know to avoid their browser like the plague.
“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.”
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
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).
