Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
  • KenLin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    I appreciate him saying it upfront. Makes it easy to stay away from all of their products.

  • rpl6475@lemmy.mlEnglish
    48·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • postnataldrip@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    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.

    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.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • LouSlash@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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

  • cmrn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    2 months ago

    That’s like a cigarette brand marketing themselves as the most cancer-causing.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    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

  • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    Where is the hacktivism when you need it? These companies need to be gutted from the inside out.

    Begin, the AI wars have.

  • calmnchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    In other news, Perplexity has signed a deal with Motorola to have the browser preinstalled on their phones.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      because they want ads that serve them things they want I imagine. EDIT: if ur downvoting me, say why. some people will see this as a feature

  • gwilikers@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Do all these dickheads go to a school to learn the same specific hand gestures?

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      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?