EDIT: THE ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED. THE PRO SUBSCRIPTION IS BACK!
Okay so I need to vent because this has actually gotten ridiculous.
Back in July last year I got Perplexity Pro for free through its promotion with a telecom provider. Great deal, loved the product, used it almost every day. Then on February 20th it just... stopped working. No warning, no email, nothing. I reached out to support and Sam hit me with the same "Your account was suspended because our systems detected activity that violates our Terms of Service" email. No further explanation whatsoever.
Unlike others, I didn't rant about it and quit. I actually went and bought Perplexity Education Pro on February 25th with my own money because I genuinely liked the product that much. Auto-pay on, everything set up properly. I was ready to be a proper paying customer.
That was 14 days ago.
Today I open Perplexity and the subscription is just gone. Again. No email this time, not even that. Last time was bad but at least they told me SOMETHING. Today I got absolute silence.
Like I genuinely cannot wrap my head around how a company takes your payment, and then cuts off access without so much as a single notification. What is happening?
At this point I've sent them a proper complaint email asking for either my subscription back with an actual explanation, or a full refund.
Anyone faced the same? Especially on the Education Pro plan?
Any solution? How I can reach to an actual person and not a bot?
I talked about this before on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142325<p>Facts: restarted archlinux yesterday after updates, so browser will start clean did not open perplexity.com since that restart on the morning chromium tried to open perplexity.com again after more or less 8 hours, another call to that site I don't have any extension other than ublock origin on Chromium: Version 147.0.7727.116 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) Arch Linux (64-bit)<p>So why is chromium trying to open perplexity.com?<p>I have opensnitch installed and every connection prompts to allow or deny, that is why I can find this requests. I did use perplexity a few days ago, but sure it was before update, so pc was restarted.<p>This was made from /usr/lib/chromium/chromium.<p>Even /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja is full of perplexity.ai crap, and some other sites, but that is shocking. I found perplexity mentions on Firefox, Librewolf and Thunderbird libs. But none for Chromium.<p>I know there is a aur/perplexity 1.5.1-2 client but I don't have it installed, as I don't have any account with them.<p>This is worst than a virus. I don't even know where to start to find evidence? Chromium code?
Interesting to see that the entrepreneurs from more recent years tend to be doing well relative to years prior.<p>Some interesting future directions could be:<p>- Expanding search to be global and include more competitions, like biology and chemistry<p>- Improving search so less unknown results<p>- Showing insights, like trends over the years<p>Kudos to Perplexity Computer for making this
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