Maybe there’s a middle ground where a small local model can roll with the variations in a site that would break a script, while saving the per token costs?
The reason we open our client side code is to bring in the trust in putting rtrvr's DOM intelligence in your web apps - https://github.com/rtrvr-ai/rover/tree/main . Our monetization is super straight forward with subscription - https://www.rtrvr.ai/pricing . The experiences of some extensions shipping anything or selling user data comes in when people build them as side-gigs not when we pour more than year in building the highly accurate automation engine. We have cloud sandboxes too if you prefer executing with the same intelligence on cloud and not on your own device.
auditing the code is fairly straightforward if it isn't obfuscated. so long as it doesn't execute dynamic code that is. but the big issue is you can't control when the extension itself gets an update (to my knowledge). and it isn't uncommon to sell browsing data, or the extension itself to someone more shady than the original author down the road.
The bigger goal is to build and maintain a global library of popular automations. Users can also quickly re-record and recreate the scripts to update.
Since it runs inside your own browser, there should be no captchas or challenges. On failure it can fallback to our regular web agent that can solve captchas.
Big picture wise with the launch of Mythos it might just become impossible for websites to keep up, and they will have to go like Salesforce and just expose APIs for everything.
We are thinking through on self healing mechanisms like falling back to a live web agent and rewriting script.
PS: Also, our data policy if you are interested: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/rtrvr-ai-privacy-security-how-we-h...
Does this work on sites that have protection against LLMs such as captchas, LLM tarpits and PoW challenges?
I just see this as a never ending cat and mouse game.
Since it runs inside your own browser, there should be no captchas or challenges. On failure it can fallback to our regular web agent that can solve captchas.
Big picture wise with the launch of Mythos it might just become impossible for websites to keep up, and they will have to go like Salesforce and just expose APIs for everything.