Comet Sends All Your Urls to Perplexity Servers and There's No Way to Stop It
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The article claims Comet sends URLs to Perplexity servers without a way to stop it, sparking discussion on the similarity with other web tracking practices.
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roscas
about 2 months ago
1 replyNever used Comet but what is that diferent from any web site sending information to google-analytics[.]com?
Worst, you visit everyday sites with Facebook pixels and they get to know where you are and do.
skaulAuthor
about 2 months ago
This would be akin to Chrome sending the user's (unmodified) URLs to Google. Even Chrome thinks that that would be really bad for user privacy, and goes through elaborate techniques to not leak the user's direct browsing to Google, even for security-positive use-cases like Safe Browsing.
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