{"id":121267,"date":"2024-11-02T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121267"},"modified":"2024-11-02T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T09:13:48","slug":"openais-new-chatgpt-search-chrome-extension-feels-like-a-search-hijacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121267","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ChatGPT logo\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2023\/11\/08\/ChatGPT.jpg\" width=\"1600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s new &#8220;ChatGPT search&#8221;\u00a0Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome&#8217;s settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, OpenAI launched its new AI search product &#8220;ChatGPT Search,&#8221; which provides real-time answers to conversational searches on the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-chatgpt-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said an OpenAI announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The feature is being tested first with ChatGPT Plus and Team users, with plans to roll\u00a0it out to everyone over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the release, OpenAI released a Chrome browser extension called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chromewebstore.google.com\/detail\/chatgpt-search\/ejcfepkfckglbgocfkanmcdngdijcgld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ChatGPT search<\/a>.&#8221; The Chrome Web Store page transparently says the extension makes ChatGPT the default search engine when searching from the Chrome address bar, pushing all searches through the &#8220;https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/?q=&#8221; URL.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hyped up the extension on X yesterday, stating that everyone should get ChatGPT Plus and install the extension as it is &#8220;really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/1852142212425093142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Altman tweet\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/security\/o\/openai\/search-extension\/sam-tweet.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TalBeerySec\/status\/1852294999200661584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pointed out<\/a> by cybersecurity researcher\u00a0Tal Be&#8217;ery, there is not much to this extension. All it does is modify the Chrome address bar search to use ChatGPT Search, making it feel like any garden-variety search hijacker commonly found on the Chrome Web Store.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overridden search settings by ChatGPT Search extension\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/security\/o\/openai\/search-extension\/search-overrides.jpg\" width=\"1205\"\/><figcaption><strong>Overridden search settings by ChatGPT Search extension<\/strong><br \/><em>Source: BleepingComputer<\/em>\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chrome extensions always come with a risk, and while this one is harmless, there is nothing to stop the developers from introducing new privacy-concerning features in the future.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you wish to use ChatGPT Search without installing the extension, you can create a new search engine in Chrome to send your searches to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, click \u00a0<strong>Settings <\/strong>&gt; <strong>Search engine<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Manage search engines and site search<\/strong>. Then scroll down to &#8220;Site Search&#8221; and click the <strong>Add<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>You will now be shown a dialog asking to fill in some information to create a search shortcut.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Configuring the ChatGPT Search Site Search shortcut\" height=\"400\" width=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/security\/o\/openai\/search-extension\/site-search-shortcut.jpg\" class=\"b-lazy\"\/><figcaption><strong>Configuring the ChatGPT Search Site Search shortcut<\/strong><br \/><em>Source: BleepingComputer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>For our ChatGPT search shortcut, we used the following information:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\"><strong>Name:<\/strong> ChatGPT Search<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\"><strong>Shortcut:<\/strong> @cgpt<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\"><strong>URL:<\/strong> https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/?q=%s<\/p>\n<p>Once you have saved the shortcut, click the three vertical dots next to the newly created ChatGPT Search and select <strong>Make default<\/strong>.\u00a0 This will move the new search option to the top list of search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you click on the address bar, type your search query, and press enter, it will send the request to ChatGPT, which will answer your query.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Using the ChatGPT Search shortcut in Chrome\" height=\"500\" width=\"1141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/security\/o\/openai\/search-extension\/chatgpt--search.jpg\" class=\"b-lazy\"\/><figcaption><strong>Using the ChatGPT Search in Chrome<\/strong><br \/><em>Source: BleepingComputer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overall, while there does not seem to be any risk to using the ChatGPT Search extension, there is also no real value to it when you can just create a shortcut.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, adding too many extensions to Chrome only causes the browser to utilize more resources and potentially cause conflicts, making it better to keep them at a minimum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/openais-new-chatgpt-search-chrome-extension-feels-like-a-search-hijacker\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s new &#8220;ChatGPT search&#8221;\u00a0Chrome extension feels like nothing more than a typical search hijacker, changing Chrome&#8217;s settings so your address bar searches go through ChatGPT Search instead. 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