New AI-powered web browsers, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet, are attempting to unseat Google Chrome as the primary gateway to the Internet for billions of users. A key selling point of these products is their web browsing AI agents, which promise to complete tasks on a user’s behalf by navigating websites and filling out forms. However, consumers may not be aware of the significant risks to user privacy associated with agentic browsing, a problem that the entire tech ind
