Gemini in Chrome
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·September 19, 2025geor9e
TheDong
Yeah, it's such a huge risk.
I once accidentally hit the "screenshot" button on my android phone while I had bing.com open, which uploaded that photo to google photos automatically, and my account was banned the next day.
The next account, I was in a Google Meet call with someone, and I said "Geez, meet is so slow, we should switch to zoom", and my account was instantly banned.
My third account got banned for emailing curse words to ceo@google.com, calling them all sorts of bad words for banning my first two accounts.
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My point is, there are zero instances I know of where a google account has been banned for sharing content with a service, be that uploading porn to google drive or google photos, emailing competitors, screenshotting on android, etc etc.
The _only_ exception I know to that is uploading CSAM, so as long as you don't like go to CSAM sites and click the gemini button you should be fine.
If you're worried about clicking the gemini button "on the wrong website", and by that you do mean CSAM, then good, I hope such a person does get banned.
The actual way I've lost all my google accounts is that they reject logging in with the correct password after I move and get a new IP, they insist I need to use my backup email to login, and my backup email is with some ISP that has since gone out of business, or is a @yahoo email that got deleted by yahoo.
tuckerman
The line might be at least a tiny bit fuzzy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
paxys
So you click a button, it pops open a text box in a floating window, you type in a question, and the AI replies. This is the most underwhelming implementation of browser-based AI that they could have come up with. Quite literally just gemini.google.com in an iFrame.
atdt
It has access to the current page, so you can ask Gemini questions about its content.
zamadatix
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atonse
Blah. On the one hand, this is where the monopoly power of putting Gemini in Chrome should be looked into by the DOJ. On the other hand, this might make me switch back to chrome.
These are all things Apple could build into safari, but they're nowhere to be seen. They'll be stuck solving yesterday's problems (like building an infinitesimally better camera for the latest iPhone), but not at all integrating any AI into them.
aeon_ai
If the forced deprecation of Ublock wasn't enough to get me off Chrome, this sure as hell is.
EZ-E
We need a [US Only] tag on the thread title, I almost got excited
SilverElfin
Google taking advantage of their anti competitive monopolies
firefoxd
The future of web browsing is the tiktok model. Where you don't surf the web, but the web is served to you "algorithmically". Do it long enough, and you'll be serve the pages you want and it will feel like it was your idea all along. Gemini everywhere is the first step.
The28thDuck
I hereby declare this to be the future! We made it folks. Time to pack it up. See you in a 2002 LAN party.
cwmoore
What is LAN?
be_erik
I don’t understand who this is for? I just tried Anthropic’s extension and it feels like writing automated selenium tests.
LLMs interacting with markup is not the best abstraction layer.
skybrian
It sounds like an alternative for passing a URL to a chat session, with the advantage that you could share web pages that require a log in.
But you might want to be careful about which web pages you share this way?
resonious
Right it felt pretty bad. It chugs tons of tokens just to be like "I need to scroll up!". Then 5 seconds later it scrolls up, chugs more tokens. "I need to scroll up more!"
nextworddev
It’s for Google to gain complete control of the context whereever you are on the Internet
jama211
Google would control everything if they could, but this won’t achieve that and they know that so it’s not the specific intention of this. Even if you’re feeling doomerish about it.
nextworddev
Ok dude
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albert_e
Microsoft baked in Copilot into Edge more than a year ago.
It was forced into Windows task bar as well.
This seems to be in the same vein.
A danger with google is how flippantly they will ban google accounts for the dumbest things. Now theres a button to livesteam your browsing tied to your google account. I wonder how many people are going to lose 20 years of gmail Gphotos and GDrive files because they accidentally clicked gemini at the wrong moment on the wrong website.