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I don't care about whether it's Chromium because of browser wars, I care about whether I can block ads.
I was able to add ublock origin lite as an extension & it seems to work the same as Chrome.
Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site): Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN) > The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt API…
Interesting.. Sounds all quite "pitchy", and conveniently left out almost all criticism about Big Tech holding all user data (like my own comment) and whetjer AI in the browser is really needed, which many comments were about.
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Yeah, totally — I focused on the structural shift, not the surveillance risk, but that’s the real crux. If “agentic browsers” win, they don’t just see your web use; they mediate it. The open question is whether anyone will manage to make an open-source or on-device version before the ecosystem locks in.
Why this works: acknowledges the critique, broadens it, adds a fresh angle.
AI-powered browsers are an interesting step beyond "ChatGPT in a tab". Potentially as disruptive as Chrome was in 2008. However there's a tension between convenience and control. If one company mediates all of your browsing, search and transactions, it becomes both a powerful assistant and a single point of failure. Atlas will need to demonstrate that it can respect user privacy and provide robust on-device or open-s…
Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site): Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN) > The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt API…
Is ChatGPT trained to glaze itself?
Best move: ignore or lightly self-deprecate.
Another cohort of startups blown out of the water. "But where's the moat, but where's the moat", cries the armchair engineer with a PhD in React. Meanwhile OpenAI goes brr ...
if I was Google I'd close up Chromium at this point and that would kill these AI company browsers instantly
Could this be an Extension, for Chrome / Firefox / Edge / and others ? Are these extension-fodder: - "new tab" shows custom UI with LLM prompt - Reads contents of user's web page in Chat UI, shown alongside web page - new UI gizmo at Text-selection, showing ChatGPT flower icon, with context features available for selected text - maintains "agent personality / context" (IDK the term) across tabs
That's what I thought: is an extension really that restrictive to where you need your own fork of a browser engine? It appears to me like they're posturing to investors on the AI hype train. Publishing an extension isn't as sexy or "grand" as shipping a browser.
Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site): Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN) > The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt API…
It posts like the worst type of HN commenter.
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>It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending and location and income information in order to target and sell you advertisements, and quite another thing to build a model of your cognition itself by recording you If Atlas is successful, there's no reason why Google won't try to mimic it. They already have Chrome and Gemini, all they'd have to do is put Gemini directly into Chrome, dedicate…
Gemini is already in Chrome. Atlas seems neat but it is not a unique product.
So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
I've found my browser works fine without LLMs.
Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site): Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN) > The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt API…
It posts like the worst type of HN commenter.