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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.
Yesterday, I received an email invitation from 1Password offering early access to the forthcoming 1Password browser extension for Comet, an AI browser from Perplexity.
Personally, I am disappointed that “1Password is partnering with Perplexity,” since 1Password is a brand that emphasizes privacy – and, Perplexity is a brand that apparently does not. More specifically, the Comet browser records the following information:
- "URLs of the websites you visit
- The text, images, and other resources of those pages
- The permissions you grant those websites
- The number of windows and tabs you have open
- Your search queries
- What you download
- The cookies from websites
It also asks your permission to access all the data in your Google Account, meaning it can read your emails, go through your contacts, see all your stored files, and more." (source)
I hope that 1Password reconsiders this business relationship in order to protect its brand integrity….
I do not work for, represent, or have any interest in any of the parties involved beyond being a 1Password subscriber. I don't wear a tin foil hat because you can't get foil made of tin and a hat doesn't provide the required Faraday cage protection (and may amplify some signals).
1Password should carefully consider with whom to partner, collaborate, and whose products and platforms to use. A major part of their product is a web browser plugin and the current market for web browser providers is lead by the world's biggest advertiser and data broker and AI-in-everything peddler, with most of the other providers (including other data brokers who almost rival that one) using their code as the basis for their products. Consequently, it makes sense to provide the ability to safely and securely manage credentials on as many legitimate web browsers as possible.
1Password customers who use Comet have asked for its support.Given that we trust 1Password to keep our secrets, we implicitly trust they aren't going to compromise this by working to feed them into a third party's LLM training data, providing customer data to brokers for sale, or openly associate with Bokononists. We should, of course, also verify.
I think 1P_Blake adequately addressed what should be our major concern.Notwithstanding all that, we customers should express our preferences to our vendors when they associate with others of whom we strongly disapprove - from comments here and there to voting with our wallets. There is also the hook.
The critical difference here is "support" vs "integration". It is heavily implied that Comet will receive integration, beyond mere support. As for users asking for support for a browser, tell that to the Zen Browser users who've wanted support for 2 years at this point.
I registered for the community just to add to this. When the announcement was made, I cannot express the severe disappointment I felt with 1Password for doing this.
Pleonasm, I think your statement that "Perplexity is a brand that apparently does not" value privacy is understating it. Perplexity has come out and openly said they want to amass as much data on users as possible:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/
https://pxlnv.com/blog/carelessness-of-perplexity/
The fact that 1Password has chosen to partner with them signals a massive shift in 1Password and a complete lack of respect for user privacy. That is not the kind of business I can trust with my most sensitive information. I can't even fathom why 1Password thought this was a good idea.
I have canceled my 1Password subscription. This flies completely in the face of why I signed up with 1Password in the first place. There are plenty of competitors out there who aren't willing to "partner" with a company whose entire business model is based around invading users privacy.
The end of an era.
Yup. Strongly agree. If there's no absolute walkback and apology I'll be cancelling my subscription.
I already did
