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google has been dying to do this for ages, they might just follow perplexity example.
I'm morbidly curious as to how well they could do trying to get my profoundly cheap self to spend money.
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...
Once it becomes popular ... then they'll play down their focus on wanting to track everything ... dress it up in pretty colours and some kind of swoosh ... then sell it as a feel good product ... five years later everyone is complaining that they are being tracked and that the company is using hyper personalized ads
He is openly and honestly trying to out Google, Google!
Doing well so far...
Guess I'll cancel my free trial.
Oh just what I wanted. Perplexing,ayoooo
inb4 they try to take control of Chromium
To be fair, they're targeting people who WANT to be tracked, in return for personalized ads. If that's not you (or me), just ignore their entire platform.
Bold move. Let's see how it pans out.
Which is, according to their cooked market surveys, most people. 76% prefer "relevant" ads.
Have you heard of the term "enshittyfication" ?
Thats it im only browsing gopher from now on.
I'm just shocked Motorola is still ticking along, making cell phones.
They make some solid devices
this is pretty funny, a great example of how tech startups only care about selling their stuff to investors.
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