Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.
I dread having to log in to these systems and waste hours achieving the simplest tasks.
This is what I'm using Claude for. E.g. I log in to AppStore connect, tell it what I need (3 subscription tiers), it will do all the clicking and editing and Apple's stupid UI, then I will ask it to create a summary for RevenueCat, and use another Claude session in there to click all the buttons to configure based on what just happened in Appstore connect.
Or configuring S3 buckets or whatnot.
Also for things like locating a product available to pick up in a nearby store, it’s crazy how often Google fails at this particular task.
Anyways I will (continue to) not touch Chrome with a 1000ft pole after this. AI is awful in almost every aspect I've ever tasked it to.
You can always ask for a list and still make the final decision yourself.
Of course the single biggest thing my browser can do to help me is blocking ads, which means it's curious to see this just after Google killed adblock in chrome.
Even before the removal of MV2, the claims that it would kill adblock were ridiculous as many adblockers had already switched to MV3 but it was at least understandable that people could be ignorant of that fact. Now that everything is on MV3 how can people still be claiming that Google killed adblock when Chrome users still have working adblockers?
Sounds like a contrived situation, but there's a surprising amount of "thought leader" CEOs out there who make completely nonsensical decisions under the banner of "saving costs and automating things".
(Real-world example I know of) company pays for cheapest tier they can find of Gemini, tell everyone to use it. But won't pay for Asana seats, so every user in your 100-person startup is a guest, and can't use the connector in any AI app to TRULY do useful task management with AI.
Having some better access to AI in the browser would pave over that pain for someone who currently doesn't want to spend their own money on something like Claude for Cowork and the Chrome extension to drive the browser, or open a terminal to have Claude Code do it.
Examples: using my budgeting app directly to figure out why some forecasting event went wrong, or helping me correlate SOC2 tickets with GitHub pull requests and flagging all that are older than $date.
It’s surprisingly convenient for a narrow set of tasks.
However, Gemini in Chrome requires you to allow them to use your data to improve their model, which I won't consent to. Google workspace account seems exempt so I plan to try it out there.
These feels on par with Microsoft's push to shove Copilot down everyone's neck at every step possible whether we like/need it or not