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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…

Man, literally everything we have been doing since the 90's makes totalitarian leaders foam at the mouth. Do you understand we're willingly sharing our name, surname, relationships, friends, where we work, what we do, how much we make (not maybe precisely, but with some social engineering you can get that), in some cases even private intimate videos, pics of our families, etc. Everything. There is nothing else they n…

Things work "relatively well" for billionaires and the status quo though.

You probably have no idea how much working class anger, how many unknown groups and "screams from the abyss" are being targeted, removed, censored, deranked before they gain any critical mass in this bizarre cybernetic web that's been created. I sure don't.

But sometimes you feel it on a gut level, flooded in a torrent of PR and entertainment, mind controlling algorithms and mainstream media with an increasingly tiny overton window disregarding the circus of culture wars farming attention and steering political anger for economic political gains - through a media landscape where all local news, actual working class papers representing real people, and diversity of thought has been replaced by thoughts™ approved by one of the few giga corporations working for a microscopic plutocracy.

It's over 100 years since Edward Bernays et al. invented modern PR, then came astroturfing, and now it's all so weird and colossal that no talks about what was seemingly obvious a century ago.

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this would be the world’s most catastrophic data leak. Why?

Because sama has mentioned that a heck of a lot of people use ChatGPT to discuss some of their deepest secrets and fantasies.

So the world's most embarrassing data leak, but "catastrophic" is stretching it.

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It’s always “Book me a flight” or “write an email”. Like all we do is email people about where we’re flying next

Remember Quibi? It was a streaming platform of TV shows, where they were filmed in portrait mode instead of landscape, and the episodes were 5 minutes instead of 30. Their pitch was basically: "Nobody has time to sit down and watch a whole TV show anymore, that's why the short form content like Instagram and TikTok is doing so well - we're going to make TV shows to compete with those platforms that you can watch whil…

Quibi was 5 years too early. Vertical micro dramas are now an $8B market, just exceeded box office in China and expanding rapidly elsewhere.

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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 :)

You should try us :) open-source and privacy-first alternative to Atlas -- https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

Seems like it's based on Chromium? If so, that's a no-go for me. We need more web diversity and support smaller browser engines, we don't need yet another Chromium/Blink based browser.

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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…

Yea totally - like those Black Mirror-esque (and South Park?) videos of people having AI talk to their partner about deep relationship stuff.

We just built a mechanical parts AI search engine [1], and a lot of what it does it just get the best options clustered together, and then give the user the power to do the deeper engineering work of part selection in a UI that makes more sense for the task than a chat UI.

Feels like this pattern of "narrow to just the good options, but give the user agency / affordances" is far better.

[1] https://www.govolition.com/power-search

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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?

It will depend on how they implement the sponsored content. If there are regulations that require marking it as sponsored, that makes it easy to block. If not, then sure maybe via LLMs.

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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.

that’s an extraordinary thing to say. I would unsurprised if this was common in a couple of years.

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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

By default, I believe that anything you put in the "omnibox" is sent to Google - even if you don't press enter. So, if you use it as a clipboard of sorts and paste a secret / token / key, it should be considered compromised.

You can validate this by going to chrome://omnibox

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