Claude in Chrome

Claude needs to drop the required login to use their platform. I get it if you want to use their premium models, but just yesterday I tried to use their LLM. It prompted me a couple of times to log in and I dropped off immediately and went back to ChatGPT. Just a dumb decision in my eyes

Well, Gemini is the same.

Seems like a good decision if they are trying to avoid consumers and focus on professional users who are more likely to create an account and pay. Especially if they are constrained on compute.

You are using a free service, and think the provider cannot ask for a simple login.

Anonymity is fine to ask for, but you are not paying for something and you are getting value...

I was curious and using a watch I found it took me 25 seconds to sign up and setup an account. You probably spent more time trying to work around this and typing this comment than it would have taken to setup your account.

I tried your approach with a contractor working on my kitchen - ask her if she will do all the work for free - nope. so dumb

Well the other contractor (ChatGPT) will happily do it for free. From a comparison perspective, his complaint is valid.

If I got a contractor now that offered it for free there is exactly 0.00006% chance I would take it (job is $40k-ish). nothing is free :)

No it isn't. At least not on my devices. Try opening gemini.google.com in an incognito window.

ChatGPT without a login is basically a 5 minute free trial with no integration with any other system besides web search.

You get bumped down to a way worse experience almost immediately and the login nags are so strong that logged-out use is almost certainly going away in the near future.

It’s like the contractor that comes over for free but mainly does so to find every possible problem in your house that they might be able to charge you for.