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Claude for Chrome

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Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by strange_quark »

echelon wrote: post #28
strange_quark wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits. And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem. Rocketry, Apollo... Same thing here. And it's bound to have the same consequences, both good and bad. Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files. Evolution finds a way, but it leaves a mountain of b…

> When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits. And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem.

Yeah they cracked the problem with a completely different technology. Letting LLMs do things in a browser autonomously is insane.

> Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files.

And now we are unwinding all of those mitigations all in the name of not having to write your own emails.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by ACCount37 »

strange_quark wrote: post #18
rustc wrote: post #6

> 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.

It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

Nothing new. We've allowed humans to use computers for ages.

Security-wise, this is closer to "human substitute" than it is to a "browser substitute". With all the issues of letting a random human have access to critical systems, on top of all the early AI tech jank. We've automated PEBKAC.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by MattSayar »

aliljet wrote: post #22

Having played a LOT with browser use, playwright, and puppeteer (all via MCP integrations and pythonic test cases), it's incredibly clear how quickly Claude (in particular) loses the thread as it starts to interact with the browser. There's a TON of visual and contextual information that just vanishes as you begin to do anything particularly complex. In my experience, repeatedly forcing new context windows between sc…

Same. When I try to get it to do a simple loop (eg take screenshot, click next, repeat) it'll work for about five iterations (out of a hundred or so desired) then say, "All done, boss!"

I'm hoping Anthropic's browser extension is able to do some of the same "tricks" that Claude Code uses to gloss over these kinds of limitations.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by jjice »

strange_quark wrote: post #18
rustc wrote: post #6

> 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.

It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

My theory is that the average user of an LLM is close enough to the average user of a computer and I've found that the general consensus is that security practices are "annoying" and "get in the way". The same kind of user who hates anything MFA and writes their password on a sticky note that they stick to their monitor in the office.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by prodigycorp »

rustc wrote: post #6

> 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.

Besides prompt injection, be ready to kiss your privacy goodbye. You should be assuming you're handing over your entire browsing contents/history to Anthropic. Any of your content that doesn't follow Anthropic's very narrow acceptable use policy will be automatically flagged and stored on their servers indefinitely.

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by latexr »

coffeecoders wrote: post #11

Not sure if its only me, but most of the texts in this page aren't showing up. https://i.imgur.com/E4HloO7.png

It’s not only you. I tested in three different web browsers, each with their own rendering engine (Webkit, Chromium, Gecko), and all of them show no text. It’s not invisible, it’s plain not there.

Did they tell their AI to make a website and push to production without supervision?

Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by wotzInsane »

strange_quark wrote: post #18
rustc wrote: post #6

> 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.

It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

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Re: Claude for Chrome

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Post by lbrito »

Seems like a zero sum game re: interface.

Either we optimize for human interactions or for agentic. Yes we can do both, but realistically once things are focused on agentic optimizations, the human focused side will slowly be sidelined and die off. Sounds like a pretty awful future.

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