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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, look for that browser to fail instantly as no one will use it.

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[–] winni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is Chrome not doing exactly this?

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[–] J52@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dumb and dumber will love it, ts,ts,ts. Some nerds...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Nothing wrong with typescript

[–] Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"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."

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.zip 13 points 2 days 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.

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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok how long after this browser goes live till we hear it being used by the FBI to track criminals.

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh, time to stop using any perplexity products

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

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.

First time I hear about this actually so...

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Jesus, that escalated quickly...

[–] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

It's a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Chrome does that already anyway.

some people will see this as a feature to be desired, not a bug

[–] Celestus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Surely people don’t actually want this, right?

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The selling point is that our product gives you AIDS, for free!

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

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).

[–] ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haha..I can see this guy saying out loud to his friends..."and while everyone else is moving towards privacy I'll do the exact opposite, but to the extreme. Don't look at me like that Kyle, I've already sold my soul. We're gonna be so rich."

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Well no thanks

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When you quit talking to potential customers and go right for the unhinged investors.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Fucking Perplexity can't give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it's something worth something, it's hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there's only 20k of these and it's first come first served. Still haven't used their shit and actually don't know anyone who does.

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