Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish • 4 months ago

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads

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Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads

Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish • 4 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@lemmy.world

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

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37•4 months ago
Never use Perplexity, got it.

I’m old, I don’t browse the web on my phone, anyway.
- @BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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  3•4 months ago
  And I used to recommend it to people over ChatGPT. 😭 Because it doesn’t require you to log in. Enshittification really is everywhere now.

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