Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser for iPhone With Built-In Assistant

[RadMac]

I miss the era of the internet before AI slop was everywhere.

I miss the era where there was no Internet.

 

[RadMac]

Perplexity does collect browsing and search history from Comet to create ad-targeting profiles to serve ads to users

And why would I give another entity my information to sell? Isn't Google enough already!

 

[thettareddast]

Quit pushing AI. I don't want it everywhere and in everything.

I'm sorry I can't do that Dave.

 

[attila]

Another Chromium + AI Slop browser... yawn.

 

[Populus]

I hope Apple gets it right one of these days because I don't really trust the other companies to keep my stuff private so there are corners of my life that it is nowhere near. If we had really great Apple intelligence, they would have all my AI business!

Me too, especially if Apple develops locally running models.

Similar to the RAGs I’m trying to learn about, but made by Apple.

 

[cicalinarrot]

No thanks. The more something promotes AI - the more I'm turned off by it and will not use it.

I'm so god damn sick of it.

I think this is a poor general attitude and I see it everywhere, for different reasons.

If that's for ethical concerns... good.
Though I (sincerily) hope you all are consistently just as careful about the environment (no private transportation unless inevitable, no meat, no plane trips and so on), about respect for artists' work and intellectual property, about workers being replaced by any sort of automation or mistreated in general (so... very pro-unions and against corporations in general, pro regulations and state interventions).
I mean, if that's your concern, I hope it's the tip of the iceberg, because there's so much more going on that's destroying the planet and people's lives! I'm in, let's fight together.

But if that's not the case and you just want traditional apps... I think you should all give a try to new tools.
Let me be clear: most of them are terrible, completely useless, at times harmful or counterproductive. But so is most of the internet, yet we reeeally need those few useful sites.
And most of them are just there for the sake of surfing the wave of a fad.
But I see an opposite fad of AI-hate that just assumes it's all bad. It's not.
And tools like a browser could be used to automate the most mechanical aspects of your everyday life and make your experience much less alienating. If you don't try to customise your experience, they'll always look useless from the outside.
To me, you all feel like someone who was anti-internet before the .com bubble burst. You're partially right, but you're still dismissing something pretty important.

So, unless you think you were already 100% efficient in all those others ethical aspects, I think you can try some tools that makes your life easier and maybe take this as a starting point to improve all other ethical aspects of your life.

 

[Abazigal]

Macstories also has an article promoting said browser.

Comet Is the First Agentic Browser for iOS Worth Trying

[Update: Perplexity has released an iPad version of Comet alongside the iPhone version, which you can install using the same App Store links below. However, because it wasn't part of the TestFlight version of the app that we tested, we were unaware that it was launching with the iPhone version.]...

www.macstories.net

Unfortunately, after reading it, I still have no idea what an AI-infused browser is supposed to do exactly. 🙃

 

[ELman]

I still like Firefox. Especially the desktop version with the uBlock Origin plug in installed.

 

[Bustycat]

How so please?

Something like this.

If you bought an annual Perplexity subscription, you were lied to

Perplexity changed the rules mid-year—and Pro users are paying for it.

www.makeuseof.com

The marketing of giving almost everyone a free one-year Pro subscription is backfiring.

 

[CapitalIdea]

Does average Joe use this Perplexity product? I only see it used by paid YouTubers and bloggers/vloggers? Am I missing something?

I bought a Logitech mouse last winter and it came with perplexity pro free for 6 months. It’s been actually pretty decent, since it pulls from any or all the other models and consolidates the information.

 

[Smartwatchlover]

I will quietly continue using my beloved DuckDuckGo as iPhone/iPad browser.

 

[L92]

The number of people criticizing this, who most likely have Google as their default search engine, yet are so concerned about data collection, is a little funny.