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Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

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Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.

Having a browser that works for me would be useful yeah. Stuff like skip the story and give me the recipe, or click through the pointless extra steps, or reformat my address into the bizarre format the website wants. Of course the single biggest thing my browser can do to help me is blocking ads, which means it's curious to see this just after Google killed adblock in chrome.

Adblock continues to be just as effective as it ever was in Chrome.

Even before the removal of MV2, the claims that it would kill adblock were ridiculous as many adblockers had already switched to MV3 but it was at least understandable that people could be ignorant of that fact. Now that everything is on MV3 how can people still be claiming that Google killed adblock when Chrome users still have working adblockers?

Re: Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

#29

Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.

I like doing side projects, I don't like wasting a day of work potential on any of these web apps: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Appstore Connect, Google's Android App Store, RevenueCat, Stripe, etc

I dread having to log in to these systems and waste hours achieving the simplest tasks.

This is what I'm using Claude for. E.g. I log in to AppStore connect, tell it what I need (3 subscription tiers), it will do all the clicking and editing and Apple's stupid UI, then I will ask it to create a summary for RevenueCat, and use another Claude session in there to click all the buttons to configure based on what just happened in Appstore connect.

Or configuring S3 buckets or whatnot.

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