What privacy? Perplexity wants your data, builds browser to track you and serve ads

The article discusses Perplexity AI’s upcoming Comet browser and the CEO’s candid rationale to collect user browsing behavior—such as shopping, travel, and content consumption—to build detailed profiles for targeted advertising via its Discover feed, raising significant privacy concerns. It notes the absence of any mention of “privacy” in the referenced podcast, situates the move within a broader trend of tech-driven data harvesting, and concludes with a promotional call to download Malwarebytes.