These companies are all tone deaf
Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update
Submitted 2 days ago by commander@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-also-turning-into-agentic-browser-with-newest-update/
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sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
Its more than tone. They are just deaf dumb and stupid when it comes to what their users are saying.
Kissaki@feddit.org 1 day ago
Chrome has added Auto Browse
sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I loathe (couldn’t figure out a synonym more than that) the word agentic. It sums up everything bad and wrong about AI.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
This actually sounds interesting.
“Find all comments on lemmy that are wrong. Respond explaining how they are wrong.”
That would save a lot of work.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Someone? Everyone!
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Brilliant! You’ll save us all a lot of work. Plus we will finally figure out which version of Linux is the correct one.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Let’s give everyone an army of spambots! What could go wrong?”
I’m gonna start reading books again.
innermachine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know if he joking or not but seriously I started reading again regularly like a year ish ago and I think my attention span getting better. Just not spending as much time scrolling bullshit is a big W along with practicing a longer attention span weather it’s reading or something else. Go get a terry pratchet book !
melfie@lemy.lol 22 hours ago
That does it, I’m never installing Chrome again. I haven’t in years anyway because it’s garbage spyware, but still.
tleb@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They want to push all this shit in browsers so that they can start automatically buying shit once they’re selling ads
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
God, I hadn’t thought of that. It’s going to be like cancelling a cable subscription but worse.
Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It will handle your socials, chats, your agenda, your website, your credit card, your vacations, your photos from the moment of activation to well after death…
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All so you can spend more time generating value for your masters and overlords. Huzzah, we’ve eliminated the pesky scourge of free time!
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Also so they can easily predict who is with them and who is against them. Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market. Who might challenge the status quo.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If they marketed “Agentic AI” as a way for someone to disappear from the internet entirely and be replaced by AI, I’d finally get onboard.
Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Basically don’t know how to interpret “autobrowse” in any other way. Bit like “autopilot”, you “should” have the hands on the steering wheel but…
danh2os@piefed.social 1 day ago
Are you trying to tell me that my computer will remember me better than my kids?
Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No. The server will simply keep raising your kids after you’re gone and better than you ever could.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
save us vivaldi you’re our only hope
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Nah, Firefox. Anything based on the blink engine is vulnerable to upstream fuckiness.
Ladybird is also getting there.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Nah, Firefox. Anything based on the blink engine is vulnerable to upstream fuckiness.
so aren’t firefox forks
and ladybird might be nice but the dev outed himself as a right wing bigot
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You know what this is launching just in time for?
Tax season.
Queue 10 million people getting audited because they let their browser file their taxes for them.
slampisko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cue.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
If they’re auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted it.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lol as if the IRS is going to audit anyone now.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They will if you’re not a rich fascist.
Hule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here’s hoping they’ll use the same model as their clients…
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
In practice that looks like this: youtube.com/shorts/pjT0ubmENWk
It sure looks creepy when your browser suddenly starts doing all kinds of stuff.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 day ago
No percent truth was in that video
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
He did say it makes screenshots of everything and sends it to a cloud AI for processing. I believe that. It’s also a good reason for not wanting it.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In reality, it’s going to screw so much stuff up and do so many things you don’t want it to do, that you’re going end up spending a lot of time just correcting all the mistakes it makes.
And when you’re not fighting to stop it from doing more things you don’t want it to do, you’re going spend your time worrying about what it will do next that you’re going have to fix.
And unless you pay for the most expensive phone and the most expensive tier of service, they’ll probably dumb it down on purpose and your life is going be hard.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Mistake prevention is far better than mistake correction.
I’ll be disabling that shit as soon as I install.
teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Is one of those agents going to jerk off for you too? Who the fuck needs an agent to browse the web for them?
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I see someone didn’t use Ask Jeeves back then /s
itsathursday@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It didn’t make sense then, and it doesn’t make sense now. Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
ssladam@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s trying to solve a problem created by SEO slop. “Find me the cheapest car rental”… That’s actually hard to do now bc SEO grift. Rather than building a more honest system, you get “agents” to do the searching for you