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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.
One factor that is impacting my own perception of the announced partnership of 1Password and Perplexity is the content of the email sent by 1Password entitled “1Password Exclusive: Early access to Comet, the new AI browser from Perplexity.”
In my opinion, that email is not a neutral announcement of the forthcoming availability of a 1Password extension for Comet. For example, consider that the email subject line is explicitly promoting “early access to Comet” and not “early access to the 1Password browser extension for Comet.”
Additionally, as I read the message, it seems that 1Password is endorsing the use of Comet and encouraging its customers to “be among the first to explore the future of browsing” by claiming “your early access.” The three examples in the email of using “Comet and 1Password together” suggest that 1Password users would benefit by installing and using Comet for browsing. For some users, that may be true; but for others who are more concerned about privacy, the situation is different.
Am I misinterpreting this email, or reading it too harshly? Interested to hear the opinions of others in the 1Password community….
I suspect that the reception here is a result of the most important consideration in any communication: the audience.
The first linked page is on Perplexity's site - their promotion of the partnership to their web site announcements audience (including those who search and find it). The Google Play Store link is just the extension, so for Comet users who might want to try it. The last is 1Password's "blog" which mirrors the first, but for 1Password's audience.
This all seems uncontroversial to me.1P_Blake's post here is the potentially controversial one, as it's explicitly addressing us - the Community - who have selected ourselves and likely represent a fairly common set of views on technologies involving privacy, security, and closely related matters.
At the same time, this is a publicly accessible and well-indexed 1Password web site, so has the same future audience as the other announcement, with the bonus of our exceptional insights. The language is clearly that of a company announcement.
To point of the potential for conflict would be to point of the obvious, but might also give some insight into one of the moderation challenges in threads like this one. The obvious solution is toEND OF LINE
PS. Non-sequential bills in a plain envelope in the usual place please, 1P_Blake.
You're 100% right. Been trying to say as much for two days now.
