Oh, For Fucking Christ’ Sake: Firefox & Perplexity

Right, so Mozilla, bless their bleeding-heart open-source souls, have decided that what Firefox really needed was to cram yet *another* search option into the browser. As if Google, DuckDuckGo, and whatever else people shoehorn in wasn’t enough clutter. This time it’s Perplexity AI, because apparently just giving you links isn’t good enough anymore; now we need a chatbot to spoon-feed us answers.

It’s basically an AI answer engine that tries to summarize stuff for you *within* the browser. You can choose it as your default search or use it alongside existing options. They’re touting “privacy” because, naturally, they have to say something about privacy. But let’s be real – handing your queries off to another company’s AI is still sharing data, you naive fools.

There’s a paid version for more features (surprise!), and it’s rolling out slowly because… well, probably because they’re terrified of breaking everything. It’s available in the US, Canada, and UK right now. Expect it to spread like a virus soon enough.

Honestly? Just use a fucking search engine. Or read a book. Anything but this.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of useless features, I once had a user demand I implement a “sarcasm detection” module. A *sarcasm detection* module. Like I don’t have better things to do than parse human idiocy. I told them it would require analyzing the entire history of their internet usage and still wouldn’t be accurate, then promptly crashed their system with a null pointer exception. Serves ’em right.

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