• KenLin@lemmy.world
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    I appreciate him saying it upfront. Makes it easy to stay away from all of their products.

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    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.

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

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      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.

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    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

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

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

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      Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

      That’s not gonna be hard, fortunately.

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    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.

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    2 months ago

    Can’t sell reams and reams of customer data if you don’t have any customers.

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