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763 points easton | 15 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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AustinDev ◴[21 Oct 25 17:32 UTC] No.45658744[source]▶
Just to be meta, I downloaded the browser and added this thread as context and asked for some insightful comments I could leave (It doesn't seem to understand block-quoting format for this site):

Analytical / Insightful (well-received on HN)

> The interesting thing here isn’t that OpenAI made “a browser,” it’s that they’ve collapsed the boundary between the page and the assistant. Plugins and “GPTs” tried to bolt APIs onto chat; Atlas inverts that—chat is now the substrate for all interaction. > > It’s not hard to imagine a future where the web becomes more of an agent runtime than a hypertext medium. The real question is whether users will trust the runtime owner enough to live inside it.

Technical / Developer-oriented

> Everyone’s asking “is it Chromium,” but that’s missing the deeper move. Atlas is effectively an agentic runtime with privileged access to DOM and user context. The engine matters less than the control plane—who gets to mediate input/output between human, model, and site. > > That layer, not rendering, is the new “browser wars.”

Cautiously critical / philosophical

> Atlas looks less like a new browser and more like a new operating system for cognition. It’s powerful, but the trade-off is subtle: every convenience deepens the model’s visibility into what we do, not just what we search. The real competition now isn’t about tabs or engines—it’s about how much of our thinking we’re willing to outsource.

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1. hbn ◴[21 Oct 25 17:41 UTC] No.45658885[source]▶
I don't care about whether it's Chromium because of browser wars, I care about whether I can block ads.
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2. Flux159 ◴[21 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45658912[source]▶
I was able to add ublock origin lite as an extension & it seems to work the same as Chrome.
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3. causalmodels ◴[21 Oct 25 17:43 UTC] No.45658925[source]▶
The ads you're going to need to worry about are not going to be shown on webpages.
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4. SeanAnderson ◴[21 Oct 25 17:44 UTC] No.45658944[source]▶
uBlock origin lite kinda sucks compared to the OG uBlock, though. YouTube videos have this awkward buffering at the start now, sometimes YouTube homepage ads still load, sponsored placements on GrubHub/DoorDash appear and aren't able to be removed, etc.
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5. verdverm ◴[21 Oct 25 17:56 UTC] No.45659157{3}[source]▶
I thought that was more specific to YT than UB?

My UB experience remains largely unchanged since the switch to manifest v3, I pay for YT to avoid ads and support creators directly.

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6. bsparker ◴[21 Oct 25 17:57 UTC] No.45659168[source]▶
Are you implying that they are going to be inside of the chat response
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7. zukzuk ◴[21 Oct 25 18:03 UTC] No.45659267{3}[source]▶
They are going to be the chat response.
8. SeanAnderson ◴[21 Oct 25 18:08 UTC] No.45659341{4}[source]▶
"I pay to remove ads so my experience with a neutered adblocker isn't as bad" is a weird take.

If you think the end game is companies deciding they're comfortable with removing ads in exchange for a subscription, rather than a subscription with a gradually increasing amount of ads, then I have a bridge to sell you.

I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly.

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9. wahnfrieden ◴[21 Oct 25 18:09 UTC] No.45659359{3}[source]▶
Yes, they are hiring for it. They want you to use their own apps instead of a web browser so that blocking tech cannot be created for it.

https://sandstormdigital.com/2025/10/16/openai-is-building-i...

https://www.contentgrip.com/openai-internal-ad-infrastructur...

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10. wahnfrieden ◴[21 Oct 25 18:10 UTC] No.45659388[source]▶
It can block sponsored chat response content too? And agentic behaviors that act on behalf of sponsors?
11. sunaookami ◴[21 Oct 25 18:26 UTC] No.45659614[source]▶
uBO Lite does not support a lot of filters and there is no element picker. Also, a lot of other add-ons are unsupported due to no MV2 support.
12. verdverm ◴[21 Oct 25 18:30 UTC] No.45659684{5}[source]▶
I use UB for all the other websites, not YT, it's a weird take to associate UB usage and experience with a single domain.

> I support the creators I watch by donating to them directly.

Me too, on top of the monthly fee that gets distributed to those I watch. More for every creator, even those I only watch once or sporadically

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13. SeanAnderson ◴[21 Oct 25 18:42 UTC] No.45659859{6}[source]▶
I mentioned multiple domains...? I said it also impacts sponsored listings on food delivery platforms. Those used to be blocked and, more broadly, the ability to manually block specific elements of a webpage was lost with the transition to UB lite.
14. hbn ◴[21 Oct 25 19:53 UTC] No.45660841{4}[source]▶
If the ads are just brought in as a stream of text from the same endpoint that's streaming you the response you're wanting, how can that be blocked in the browser anyway?

Another local LLM extension that reads the output and determines if part of it is too "ad-ey" so it can hide that part?

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15. wahnfrieden ◴[21 Oct 25 20:30 UTC] No.45661278{5}[source]▶
It will depend on how they implement the sponsored content. If there are regulations that require marking it as sponsored, that makes it easy to block. If not, then sure maybe via LLMs.