Perplexity's Comet No Longer Promises Your Browsing Stays Local
Worth Knowing
Perplexity retired the separate privacy notice for Comet, its AI browser, and folded Comet users under the general company privacy notice. In the process, a set of browser specific promises that lived in the old notice are no longer stated in the document that now governs.
In human terms: You chose Comet partly because its privacy notice spelled out that much of your browsing stayed on your own machine, and that you could delete saved passwords, payment details, and history from settings. Those specific assurances are no longer in the notice you are now covered by. Several of them still appear in Perplexity’s help articles, but the formal document that used to make the promise now speaks in general, company wide terms.
Why this matters: A browser is the most sensitive tool most people run, because it sees everything. It is exactly where a user needs one clear, consolidated statement of what stays local, what reaches the company, and what can train its models. Removing those assurances from the formal privacy notice and leaving them scattered in help content is not proof that behavior changed, but it weakens what is actually promised, and it is worth watching. Below for specific language changes:
The mechanics: The old Comet notice stated that information was “stored certain information locally on your system,” that a user could “delete your stored Browsing Data, saved passwords, sign-in data and payment information,” and that Comet could “send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic.” The replacement notice contains company wide language about using data to improve and create products, including AI models, and does not restate those Comet specific commitments.
Some Comet controls do carry into the general notice, and Perplexity’s help documentation still describes local storage of credentials and payment information unless synced. What moved is the specificity, out of the formal notice and into support pages. Separately, and on the same date, Perplexity named VeraSafe as its data protection representative and officer for the EU and UK.
We found no confirmed change in how the product actually behaves, only in what the notice promises.
