Dumb and dumber will love it, ts,ts,ts. Some nerds...
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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"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."
Well no thanks
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.
When you quit talking to potential customers and go right for the unhinged investors.
I am perplexed at he. Why the hell would I want this?
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Is Chrome not doing exactly this?
Chrome is relatively limited in scope compared to, say, a user on an instance of degoogled chromium just using the same Google services along with all the other browsing they do. The extra data that's gathered is generally going to be things like a little more DNS query information, (assuming your device isn't already set to default to Google's DNS server) links you visit that don't already have Google's trackers on them (very few) and some general information like when you're turning on your computer and Chrome is opening up.
The real difference is in how Chrome doesn't protect you like other browsers do, and it thus makes more of the collection that Google's services do indirectly, possible.
Perplexity is still being pretty vague here, but if I had to guess, it would essentially just be taking all the stuff that Google would usually get from tracking pixels and ad cookies, and baking that directly in to the browser instead of it relying on individual sites using it.
Chrome doesn't really collect much data directly. It just has no protection against all the trackers on nearly every website that do.
Surely people don’t actually want this, right?
I have gotten a year Perplexity pro subscription for free somewhen in summer last year. Guess, I won’t even think about split second about paying for this service or even using it after my free year has run its course.
Perplexity ? More like Debility.
Ok how long after this browser goes live till we hear it being used by the FBI to track criminals.
A caveman-like idea from a caveman-lookin' mfer.
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).
some people will see this as a feature to be desired, not a bug