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“... What are the things you’re buying; which hotels are you going [to]; which restaurants are you going to; what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you,” he explained.
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
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What? No! If I have to see an advert, I want it to be irrelevant. If I have to see an advert, show me tampons or baby food or football souvenirs — things I'll never buy. Don't show me something interesting, because that'll distract me and, even worse, might tempt me to spend money I don't need to spend.
All adverts are bad, but targeted adverts are the worst of all.
Edit: apparently, this version of Markdown doesn't support block quotes.