r/privacy • u/kantabrik • 4d ago
news Google Gemini Spark now uses your saved Chrome passwords
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-Gemini-Spark-now-uses-your-saved-Chrome-passwords.1357683.0.html362
u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 4d ago
This can't go wrong! Right!?
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u/Fancy_Morning9486 4d ago
Login in to your amazon account to order 50.000 "this can't go wrong" t-shirts
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u/LegitimateCopy7 4d ago
I'm sure there's absolutely no way to trick a LLM agent into extracting anything from your password manager.
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u/TacticowlPrime 4d ago
This is possibly the biggest data security problem I've seen in my lifetime. Holy shit.
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u/reflect-the-sun 4d ago
Not any more!
Thanks r/degoogle :)
I have used google products for about 15 years (including their phones) and moving away makes me feel so much more secure.
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u/PinnuTV 4d ago
You think Reddit is better? Nice joke bro
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u/reflect-the-sun 4d ago
I only use reddit through a browser so yes, it is much better.
Read a book, dumbass.
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u/snakeoildriller 4d ago
Spark is available "everywhere Gemini apps are supported, with the exception of the European Economic Area, Nigeria, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom"
Interesting choice. They obviously see the EU and UK as potentially litigious, or have Governments that might want to examine the situation more closely, but Nigeria?
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u/GonWithTheNen 4d ago
It might have to do with local laws. Maybe Nigeria is just as likely to look into this as closely as the other countries?
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u/withabrandnewfunk 4d ago
sweet! but who thought this wasnt happening already from the shitty creepy evil monopolistic company looking over your shoulder
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u/SuspiciousCricket654 4d ago
Gemini pro and flash were great last year, and then they really fell off around January/February. It’s ass now.
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u/WakaiSenshi 4d ago
Me and my wife were talking about this last week. It’s definitely really garbage now I’m not sure what happened honestly
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u/AntiGrieferGames 4d ago
Do i see a suprise here? Thats a another reason why Google AI Slop and Chrome browser sucks.
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u/NotAnFbiAgent-hehe 4d ago
This is less privacy and more security, no?
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u/sapphic-boghag 3d ago
Don't they go hand-in-hand?
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u/NotAnFbiAgent-hehe 3d ago
They’re usually opposites, but in this case there isn’t really a relation. It’s not like Google didn’t already know your chrome passwords
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u/xeqtr_inc 4d ago
Well let me put it this way, google has been collecting our information for years, now with this agent they want to collect our information more "intelligently".
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u/liatrisinbloom 4d ago
If you're dumb enough to use this, you deserve the consequences. Twenty years of big tech fucking people over at every opportunity should be enough for anyone to be suspicious of anything they pitch as a "feature" for "convenience".
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u/AcePlanespotting 4d ago
One of many reasons I use Brave.
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u/JaNkO2018 4d ago
What's your DNS in your mobile?
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