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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by HouseWolf@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Check out perplexity search engine. It's like having Google back the way it used to be

[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

How so, isn't this just another AI search engine? How is that like old school Google in any way? It's like, literally the complete opposite lol.

[โ€“] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Are you talking about perplexity.ai ? because it looks like a shitty LLM answering questions instead of an actual search engine. It looks absolutely atrocious privacy-wise, too.