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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.
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.
