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Community Manager1Password now available in Comet, the AI-powered browser by Perplexity
Hi all, thanks for raising these questions and sharing your concerns.
At 1Password, our guiding principles are privacy, security, and transparency, and ensuring people can use the tools they choose safely. We know AI and new browsing technologies raise important questions, which is why our role is to give people choice without compromising trust.
To clarify a few points about our partnership with Perplexity on the Comet browser:
- Your data remains private. Nothing about this partnership changes how 1Password works. Vaults are end-to-end encrypted, and neither Perplexity nor Comet has access to your information. Your secrets remain encrypted and never leave your control.
- The extension is the same. The 1Password browser extension works in Comet exactly as it does in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and other Chromium-based browsers. There is no special integration that exposes additional data.
- This is about choice. Our customers want us to be where they are. For those who want to try Comet, we are ensuring their login and autofill experience is secure, just as it is in other browsers.
We take trust seriously and will continue to make decisions with privacy, transparency, and security at the core.
- Your data remains private. Nothing about this partnership changes how 1Password works. Vaults are end-to-end encrypted, and neither Perplexity nor Comet has access to your information. Your secrets remain encrypted and never leave your control.
So now Comet AI will have access to secrets stored in 1Password? Who in sane mind would want it? And how is it exactly implemented? Is there some backdoor specifically for AI?
This is really worrisome news
Community ManagerThat's not the case at all. Comet doesn’t get access to anything stored in 1Password. Your vault data stays end-to-end encrypted, never shared with Perplexity, and never used to train AI.
Comet is just a separate browser. If you install it, you can also install the 1Password extension there, and it works exactly the same way it does in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. There’s no backdoor, no special link between Comet’s AI and your secrets.
And how do we know that our information isn't getting fed into their model once it's entered? I'm looking for privacy vetting on the company and it's not looking good!
- 1P_Blake
LyricRain To reiterate, Comet never has access to your 1Password data. It's not shared with Perplexity, and it's not used to train AI. Your data is yours.
Your vault stays safe and private, just like in every other browser you use the 1Password Browser extension in.
I'm not talking about vault access. I'm talking about trusting a browser that openly wants all of our data not to scrape usernames etc. once it's entered into the browser itself.
Does 1Password as a company endorse Comet with there own development manpower and money and legal recourses?
if yes, do you have majority shares or part ownership?
If not why does 1password shilling for it? is there a significant security advantage using this thing?
80% of your business is TRUST! the rest is your End-to-end-encryption (which i as a non-hacker can not verify) my reason for paying is the trust alone, not the technology.
Shilling for a DLC type of thing that try to push a $20/month subscription after using it for less thn 30 sec is somethings really hurting the trust your company enjoys.
I have a strong feeling you are putting yourself on the waitinglist to be featured in one of Louis Rossmann's Videos soon.
Glad to hear. Then you should definitely change the wording in the email as it implies that Comet will be able to do singins and checkouts on my behalf. And btw is there a way to unsubscribe from this kind of emails?
Link at the bottom of the email has an unsubscribe page that lets you tailor the types of emails they can send.
I know, but none of those types says `Marketing`. If it falls into category `Product updates and new features`, that's very unfortunate, because I do want this kind of notifications, but not marketing stuff.
And btw is there a way to unsubscribe from this kind of emails?
Yes, you can do that... BUT maybe you should wait some time before doing it, so we (all of us) can read the clarification of this issue!
I'm waiting for a new email soon! (Am I not merciful? lol)
