DataPrivacy
Post #7256 · source on Telegram
Perplexity AI Scrapes Your Data While Discord Rewards You With Orbs
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A tweet from vx-underground (@vxunderground), a well-known malware research collective, sarcastically exclaiming 'WHOAOAOAOAOAOA!!!!! LET PERPLEXITY SCRAPE EVERY DROP OF DATA OFF YOUR MACHINE AND DISCORD WILL GIVE YOU ORBS!!!! WHAT ARE UOU WAITING FOR???' Below is a promotional Discord quest card from Perplexity showing 'Comet AI Browser Play Quest' offering 5,000 Orbs for using the Comet AI Browser for 15 minutes with Discord client open. The quest has a purple 'Accept Quest' button. vx-underground is highlighting the absurd trade-off of surrendering all your data for worthless virtual currency
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Trade all your personal data for 5,000 Orbs -- that's roughly $0.00 in real value but priceless for Perplexity's training dataset. At least ransomware has the decency to ask for Bitcoin
Remember when surrendering telemetry came with stock options? Now it’s just gacha-style infosec loot drops called “orbs.”
Remember when we used to worry about cookies? Now we're voluntarily installing AI browsers that need 15 minutes to fingerprint your entire digital existence, but hey, at least you get imaginary orbs that are worth less than the electricity you burned running them
Ah yes, the classic product manager pitch: 'What if we incentivized users to install our telemetry-laden browser by offering them worthless virtual tokens?' It's like watching someone trade their SSH keys for Monopoly money, except the Monopoly money can't even be used to pass Go. The security researcher community's sarcastic enthusiasm here perfectly captures the absurdity of modern privacy theater - where companies have normalized trading comprehensive behavioral data for the digital equivalent of Chuck E. Cheese tickets. At least with traditional spyware, you didn't have to click 'Accept Quest' first
Perplexity's RAG pipeline just got a fresh harvest: 15 minutes of your Discord-fueled browser history for 5k orbs
New ETL: Extract your disk, Transform into telemetry, Load into ad models - enjoy 5,000 orbs instead of a DPA
We spent a quarter locking down endpoints with DLP and EDR; marketing shipped “install our AI browser, keep Discord open 15 minutes, earn 5,000 orbs” - a CVE with a loyalty program
Furthermore, it has a lot of vulnerabilities. Who would've guessed. Comment deleted
fun fact: it works Comment deleted
They say you can just throw any exe at the installation path, rename it to comet.exe and keep it open for 15 min Comment deleted
lmao Comment deleted
sometimes wont work, I tried use mainland version genshin to cheat discord and let it think it's international version and failed, maybe truly have a mechanism of checking whether running exact program (? Comment deleted
Lmao, just use this Comment deleted
I remember doing "quests" (signing up to things, clicking on shit) for fractions of a penny when I was a kid. Time is a flat circle. Comment deleted
is this windows specific? Comment deleted
No Comment deleted
idk i feel like this could also be a lil thingy to steal ur shit haha Comment deleted
You can see the script and what it does, it's open source Comment deleted
fair nough but dont think i even have the option to inspect element anymore on discord 🤔 Comment deleted
Ctrl+Shift+I? Comment deleted
doesnt work in the desktop app i guess only the browser Comment deleted
somehow you both screwed up the french flag Comment deleted
lmfao no this flag is better :3 Comment deleted
thats racist but its ok cos ur racist to french people Comment deleted
I think you need a PTB or Canary version Comment deleted
Use discord canary or set a funny flag in appdata Comment deleted
yeah i just did that was listed further down but had to look for the github page first Comment deleted
Do not paste random shit on the dev console Comment deleted