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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.
Community ManagerHi 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.
If it were really purely about choice then why is Zen left in the dirt here?
I'm very glad it's the same extension and those responses are helpful for sure. However it remains that an email was sent to (seemingly?) all 1Password personal customers promising:
"With Comet and 1Password together, you can ask Comet to:
- Find a recipe, add ingredients to your cart, and use 1Password to securely check out on your behalf.
- Plan a walking route for your next vacation, then use 1Password to sign into your email and share it.
- Sign in to your favorite news site with 1Password, then ask Comet for a quick summary of the latest articles."
If it were the case there was no integration, then why was this email sent, seemingly promising such integration?
I think a key part of the issue, at least for me, was that if such a badly phrased email could be sent, despite a well-worded blog post as linked in the original post above, what else could go wrong in the company we're trusting some of our most private credentials to? The email bigging up Comet does not indicate to me that trust is taken seriously.
To summarise: I don't mind Comet having 1Password Support, and to be fair to yourself you have alleviated those concerns somewhat. What I do mind is 1Password treating Comet differently to other browsers and/or users by sending marketing crap on their behalf. What I do mind is 1Password working (apparently closely, given the difference in the marketing copy vs the blog!) with a privacy-hating organisation.
