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OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Date Published: 2024-11-01

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Lawrence Abrams

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This article reviews OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search Chrome extension, concluding it merely overrides Chrome’s address bar search to route queries through ChatGPT—akin to typical search hijackers but not malicious—while offering step-by-step instructions to create an equivalent Chrome Site Search shortcut without installing the extension, and advising users to minimize extensions due to performance and privacy considerations.

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