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Claude for Chrome

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795 points davidbarker | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 19:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rustc ◴[26 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45030857[source]▶
> Malicious actors can hide instructions in websites, emails, and documents that trick AI into taking harmful actions without your knowledge, including:

> * Accessing your accounts or files

> * Sharing your private information

> * Making purchases on your behalf

> * Taking actions you never intended

This should really be at the top of the page and not one full screen below the "Try" button.

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strange_quark ◴[26 Aug 25 19:17 UTC] No.45030955[source]▶
It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.
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falcor84 ◴[26 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45031599[source]▶
> it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.

I find that to be a massive understatement. The amount of time, effort and emotional anguish that people expend on handling emails is astronomical. According to various estimates, email-handling takes somewhere around 25% of the work time of an average knowledge worker, going up to over 50% for some roles, and that most people check and reply to emails on evenings and over weekends at least occasionally.

I'm not sure it's possible, but it is my dream that I'd have a capable AI "secretary" that would process my email and respond in my tone based on my daily agenda, only interrupting for exceptional situations where I actually need to make a choice, or to pen a new idea to further my agenda.

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1. Loic ◴[26 Aug 25 20:09 UTC] No.45031702{3}[source]▶
I am French living in Germany, the amount of time Claude saves me every week by reviewing the emails I send to contractors, customers is incredible. It is very hard to write good idiomatic German while ensuring no grammar and spelling mistakes.

I second you, just for that, I would continue paying for a subscription, that I can also use it for coding, toying with ideas, quickly look for information, extract information out of documents, everything out of a simple chat interface is incredible. I am old, but I live in the future now :-)