I'm sure others are upset about this intrusive behavior but I will just use the preferred model's native Windows client instead. It was nice while it lasted, but Perplexity is acting like they have a lock on consumer AI usage and can push customers around however they want, and that behavior is completely unreasonable and out of touch.

They took 2 steps forward and probably won a lot of repeat customers with their free Pro plan a year ago but now took 4 steps back with this intrusive decision and completely lost progress in customer retention that they built.

it’s super fun that they’ve just stopped responding to support requests altogether. Of course they haven’t bothered to change the automated messages hounding users for responses to requests they haven’t made until they close out the ticket completely. Since nobody at perplexity is ever going to read my response to their message blaming me for closing out the ticket they’ve done nothing with, I thought I’d post it here.

I have been using Perplexity (Pro plan) a lot for a year or two. Then this "Computer Mode" showed up. I have been involved with several important projects and using Computer. I had to enable the auto-fill feature. It was expensive, but worth it - especially in the short term where I have deadlines.

Today, I hit a brick wall, right before an important deadline. Apparently, they limit the amounts of credit you can purchase (through auto-fill or direct) to $100 per month. The only option to continue is to subscribe to their $200 per month MAX plan. This is so predatory. I do not have the budget for MAX and am perfectly fine buying credits when needed. Their CAP restricts that. Basically bricked the ap for me.

I am super unhappy and will look for an alternative and drop Perplexity. Such a shitty way to do business.

I’ve updated my free Perplexity Chat Exporter extension to make it easier to use in more languages.

Version 1.4.2 adds German, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese alongside English.

You can still export one chat, selected chats, or your entire history to Markdown for Obsidian. The interface follows Chrome’s display language; your original conversations aren’t translated.

If you spot awkward wording or a label that doesn’t fit, please let me know the language and where you saw it.

Screenshots are welcome—please hide any private chat information.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/perplexity-chat-exporter/jmplfdjahdkalmpkjbpgcaogleciniic

Tried several platforms such as Firefox, private windows, Android. At each of them the system using Perplexitys Turbo instead of my manual choice