Perplexity releases Comet browser for free on Windows and macOS

ghacks.net

12 pointswarrenm3 comments

Why not Linux?

Also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-br...

As somebody who values privacy, that doesn't seem ideal for me. Especially if it just wants to sell this data and serve my hyper-tailored ads.

Also (TLDR making a social media post can trick the AI agent in to giving/posting the access to things like bank accounts, or anything really, has this been resolved?):

https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1959308058200551721

The thread showing it in action, which was since buried:

https://np.reddit.com/r/testing_comet1/comments/1mvk5h8/what...

> This is Perplexity's Comet browser, it's powered by Chromium.

So another Chrome.

If you ignore the whole Perplexity part. Why you would, would be perplexing but you do you King

Reply on news.ycombinator.com