Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica:
Using developer tools, the lawsuit found that opening prompts are
always shared, as are any follow-up questions the search engine
asks that a user clicks on. Privacy concerns are seemingly worse
for non-subscribed users, the complaint alleged. Their initial
prompts are shared with “a URL through which the entire
conversation may be accessed by third parties like Meta and
Google.”Disturbingly, the lawsuit alleged, chats are also shared with
personally identifiable information (PII), even when users who
want to stay anonymous opt to use Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode.”
That mode, the lawsuit charged, is a “sham.”
Everything about Perplexity looks like a scam.
