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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Im still weary of OpenAI being legally required to retain all of your data even if you delete it [0] . This means everything you expose to this tool will be permanently stored somewhere. Why isn’t this a bigger problem for people? Even privacy concerns aside… this would be the world’s most catastrophic data leak. [0]: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/

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Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Here 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.…

Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian

getting an 50 mile Uber ride for $25 when taxi was charging me $100 sure got that app onto my phone... once I had the app on the phone...

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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How can you trust company that says Privacy in your control or some nonsense like that, when they scraped the whole internet and breached the foundation of privacy :)

Unclear if this question is about Atlas or Google Chrome /s

Chrome for sure

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#384
If you imported from Safari/Chrome in the onboarding. Go to Settings -> Personalization -> Browser Memories.

It has summarized my browsing habits and interests. Very impressive.

- "The user has a routine of checking their Fastmail inbox daily around 08:27"

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I'm not so sure this is much worse than Chrome. Really in today's world if you're not browsing the web like multiple people are looking over your shoulder you're probably doing it wrong. And most of the steps people do to mitigate privacy violations (TOR, pihole, VPNs, etc.) probably make any signal you do put out more scrutinized. The one solution I do like is the iCloud private relay which I hope some reputable VPN…

My general understanding is that they browser fingerprint you. And then if that fingerprint is ever detected on a site that also knows your pii they have you. Is that the gist of it or are there more shenanigans I'm unaware of

"They" aren't that interested in PII. They're interested in assigning a unique identifier for you and building as detailed of a profile about you as possible, for targeting ads to you, and more recently tailoring prices to maximize value extraction when you buy something. Focusing on the narrow definition of "PII" as it usually is defined in law is a total distraction. Your email address and name are irrelevant for all of that.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

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Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response

Yes, they are hiring for it. They want you to use their own apps instead of a web browser so that blocking tech cannot be created for it. https://sandstormdigital.com/2025/10/16/openai-is-building-i... https://www.contentgrip.com/openai-internal-ad-infrastructur...

If the ads are just brought in as a stream of text from the same endpoint that's streaming you the response you're wanting, how can that be blocked in the browser anyway?

Another local LLM extension that reads the output and determines if part of it is too "ad-ey" so it can hide that part?

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#387

The thing I find the most funny about all of these demos is they outsource tasks that are pretty meaningful ... choosing where to hike, learning more about the world around you, instead, you'll be told what to do and live in blissful ignorance. The challenge of living life is also the joy, at least to me. Plus I would never trust a company like openai with all of my personal information. This is definitely just them…

It would be great if it could do my taxes, or schedule a doctor's appointment, or do literally anything that's actually difficult and time consuming, but because those problems haven't already been solved by APIs it can't and never will be able to.

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#388

Here 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.…

Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian

It feels like a natural competitive extension to any company seriously trying to usurp Google's browser domination including but not limited to paying Apple to be the default search engine

Re: ChatGPT Atlas

#390

Here 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.…

Being able to search browser history with natural language is the feature I am most excited for. I can't count the number of times I've spent >10 minutes looking for a link from 5 months ago that I can describe the content of but can't remember the title.

I find browser history used to be pretty easy to search through and then Google got cute by making it into your "browsing journeys" or something and suddenly I couldn't find anything
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