Claude for Chrome

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Post by davidbarker » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:01 PM UTC

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#2

Post by zitterbewegung » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:07 PM UTC

This seems to be one of the eventual endgames for AI to have direct access to your browser so it can parse what you want exactly to get the data of what you need and gain the same in the process.

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Post by linhns » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:08 PM UTC

With Google dominating the browser battle and Gemini being decent enough for these tasks, this must be a losing effort for Anthropic?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:09 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:09 PM UTC

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Post by rustc » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

> Malicious actors can hide instructions in websites, emails, and documents that trick AI into taking harmful actions without your knowledge, including:

> * Accessing your accounts or files

> * Sharing your private information

> * Making purchases on your behalf

> * Taking actions you never intended

This should really be at the top of the page and not one full screen below the "Try" button.

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Post by cube2222 » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

> We’re launching with 1,000 Max users and expanding gradually based on what we learn. This measured approach helps us validate safeguards before broader deployment.

Somewhat comforting they’re not yolo-ing it too much, but I frankly don’t see how the prompt injection issues with browser agents that act on your behalf can be surmounted - maybe other than the company guaranteeing “we’ll reimburse you for any unintentional financial losses incurred by the agent”.

Cause it seems to me like any straightforward methods are really just an arms race between prompt injection and heuristic safeguards.

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Post by biggestfan » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

According to their own blog post, even after mitigations, the model still has an 11% attack success rate. There's still no way I would feel comfortable giving this access to my main browser. I'm glad they're sticking to a very limited rollout for now. (Sidenote, why is this page so broken? Almost everything is hidden.)

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Post by Yeroc » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

Most browser extensions you need to manually enable in incognito mode. This is an extension that should be disabled in normal mode and only enabled in incognito mode!

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Post by cdrini » Tue, Aug 26, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

Hmm is it just me or is this webpage loading with all the text invisible? Firefox+Android.