If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions. Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income inform…
My web browser runs as root? Atlas runs as root? Atlas is a keylogger that indiscriminately watches what I type? Are any of these things true?
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was able to add ublock origin lite as an extension & it seems to work the same as Chrome.
uBlock origin lite kinda sucks compared to the OG uBlock, though. YouTube videos have this awkward buffering at the start now, sometimes YouTube homepage ads still load, sponsored placements on GrubHub/DoorDash appear and aren't able to be removed, etc.
I thought that was more specific to YT than UB?
My UB experience remains largely unchanged since the switch to manifest v3, I pay for YT to avoid ads and support creators directly.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't care about whether it's Chromium because of browser wars, I care about whether I can block ads.
The ads you're going to need to worry about are not going to be shown on webpages.
Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response
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#184If you think this is useful... remember technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. If you thought that ads are creepy, Atlas is a root level keylogger service. Why would you want an AI company scraping and recording all of your browser interactions. Yes Google already does this via Chrome. It's one thing to build a predictive model on your demographic, spending, location and income inform…
> technology like this would make totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth.
Do we really need to use hypothetical language?
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#185Agentic browser, fine, might be cool, we'll see.
Though what I really would love to have is an LLM-powered browser extension that can simply do fluid DOM/CSS manipulation to get an upper hand on all these messed up websites.. fiddling with devtools inspector and overriding element styles one by one really takes too much time.
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#186I would be more interested if it was using something like servo as a driving engine instead of blink.
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#187AI-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…
What is this based on? personally I agree with you but in reality the market has spoken and it's said: "we don't care about privacy or walled gardens"
I definitely see a bit of push back from people (non-tech people I know). Things like system privacy prompts (for location, tracking, contacts + photo access) have made them more mindful of when they're giving data away.
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#188Can anyone get the Agent mode to work? Does it require a plus subscription, or is it not enabled yet?
I have a plus subscription & was able to get it to work on X. It shows you what it's doing on the tab as it's moving around.
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#189Just to confirm my understanding—
Atlas can screen-read anything visible on my screen, right?
So if I log into my online banking, it could capture my transaction details and balance from that page … and potentially use or train on that data, even to target ads based on my banking information?
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#190Here are the highlights from the .DMG installer screens (https://imgur.com/a/Tu4TlNu):
1. Turn on browser memories Allow ChatGPT to remember useful details as you browse to give smarter responses and proactive suggestions. You're in control - memories stay private.
2. Ask ChatGPT - on any website Open the ChatGPT sidebar on any website to summarize, explain, or handle tasks - right next to what you're browsing.
3. Make your cursor a collaborator ChatGPT can help you draft emails, write reviews, or fill out forms. Highlight text inside a form field or doc and click the ChatGPT logo to get started.
4. Set as default browser BOOST CHATGPT LIMITS Unlock 7 days of extended limits on messaging, file uploads, data analysis, and image generation on ChatGPT Atlas.
5. You're all set — welcome to Atlas! Have fun exploring the web with ChatGPT by your side, all while staying in control of your data and privacy. (This screen also displays shareable PNG badge with days since you registered for ChatGPT and Atlas).
My guess is that many ChatGPT Free users will make it their default browser just because of (4) — to extend their limits. Creative :)