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Perplexity 'Incognito' chats might not be so private, lawsuit claims
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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shame for the software engineers, marketing, the middle managers, the project owner of not over communicating that THERE IS NO PRACTICAL WAYS OF ENCRYPTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS INPUT
therefore, your chat are plainly read and known by the provider, lest you trust the privacy policy of a company, which WILL ALWAYS change anyway. There are no mathematical trust here, such as encryption in instant messaging like matrix.
Yup, want privacy, host your own models. ~~Perplexica~~ Vane + ollama (or Lemonade, better for AMD) is pretty damn easy to stand up and works well I find (never used perplexity) and you get references to real web pages to double check for hallucinations.
Nice thing about deep research is you can ask a question and just come back later, so latency is less of an issue, even CPU + RAM can do the job.
Given the current state of the internet it's heading towards a necessity to play ~~Spy vs Spy~~ AI Slop vs AI Slop. Might as well control it yourself.
FWIW I find Qwen 3.5 27B a great model if you can fit it (and I use the perplexity embedding model that they open weighted pplx-embed).
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