Sad to think there will be real people who are fine with the privacy invasive spyware

And they want to buy Chrome

Hell to the absolute fuckin' no.

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.

Even by CEO standards, why would you state that out loud?

Never use Perplexity, got it.

I'm old, I don't browse the web on my phone, anyway.

capitalism inspiring innovation right before our eyes.

Ads should be illegal

I presume this browser is going to have an install base of about 1? Depending on how many testers they have.

Well im definitely not gonna use it then. It's also apparently being built on top of Chromium so its not like its a brand new browser engine or anything. I wonder if they even had human programmers work on it, or just let their own AI churn out some slop for them.

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.

Firefox forks and uBlock Origin all day.

Damn, you'd really think these bozos would have learned to read a room by now, you know?

Cool, I’m done with Perplexity.

I want to say a thing that I want to happen to this ceo but it would get me banned.

ghoul

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.

As such I want to see Perplexity bankrupt.

For the last time I don’t want Jenna Haze shower curtains!!!!

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

So is this another tech-bro sniffing his own farts, or does he have some plan to force the browser on people?

Edit: After reading the article, it's both.

He's basically talking about toppling google in terms of ads and saying that users will be fine with the tracking because the ads will be more relevant. There's also a Motorla partnership and it will come pre-installed on their Razr series. There is talks of one with Samsung as well, and they would have zero issue forcing that browser on their customers as long as they get a copy of the data.

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.

I read that as "Perplexed CEO" and it kind of fits IMO.

Neat. Can we have access to everything he does online?

No thanks

Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.

"Nobody liked that."

Very cool stuff, Mr. Technofascist!

Hey, that sounds like a terrible idea.

perplexed about the value proposition here

Will he be perplexed when his browser fails?