Operas new AI agent web browser just reinvented web browsing - heres 5 ways
it could completely change the internet

Date:
Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:30:00 +0000

Description:
Opera's new Browser Operator uses AI to change how you use the internet.

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Interest in AI agents that can peruse the internet on your behalf has ticked up of late, partly thanks to OpenAI's Operator , along with Browser Use and the recently released Proxy 1.0 . Popular browser provider Opera has joined in to offer a tool that will actively do tasks on the web for you. If this catches on, the way we interact with the internet might never be the same, especially if it's baked right into the browser like Opera's is.

The idea for the Operator is that, instead of just answering questions or giving you information like Opera's Aria AI assistant, it can go out onto the web and do things on your behalf. You can tell it to buy concert tickets,
book a hotel, track down the best deals on a gadget, or research a topic, and it will navigate sites, fill out forms, and complete tasks for you while keeping you updated.

Youre still in control, but now you have a digital errand runner handling the tedious stuff. And that could change a lot about how we use the internet.
Here are five ways it could shake things up. Shop for me (Image credit:
Opera)

Online shopping could become radically simpler with Opera's Operator. Right now, finding the perfect item can require having ten tabs full of reviews, price comparisons, and shipping data. With the Browser Operator, you could just say, Find me the best-rated wireless earbuds under $150 and order them
to my address.

Instead of doom-scrolling product pages for an hour, youd get a curated recommendation, approve it, and be done in seconds. Imagine never dealing
with sketchy third-party sellers again because your AI assistant already weeded them out for you. Trip AI

The Operator could make planning travel actually fun instead of stressful. A simple weekend trip requires juggling flight options, hotel rates, rental car bookings, and activity reservations, all while praying you dont accidentally book a 10-hour layover.

With the Browser Operator, you could say, Plan a weekend getaway to Chicago with a hotel near downtown and a rental car, and it would handle the legwork, presenting you with an itinerary to approve. No more agonizing over which travel site has the best deals or whether that budget hotel actually has walls. The AI would be able to do the tedious searching; you just decide what sounds good. Subscribe AI

Managing subscriptions and online accounts could stop being a nightmare using AI. These days, half of our digital lives are spent trying to remember where we signed up for what, why were still being charged for something we dont
use, and how to cancel a subscription before it renews for another year. Normally, you have to dig through emails, track down obscure account
settings, and fight a desperate battle with Are you sure you want to cancel? pop-ups.

With the Browser Operator, you could say, Find all my active subscriptions
and show me what I should cancel. It could even handle the cancellations for you, sparing you from guilt-tripping retention prompts. Suddenly, your bank account isnt a graveyard of forgotten free trials turned full-priced commitments. Bills to pay (Image credit: Opera)

Even the most mundane online tasks could become hands-free with the
Operator's help. Paying bills, managing subscriptions, downloading bank statements are all the little things that chip away at your day. The
annoyance of having to remember which day you need to log in, navigate a website, and remember your passwords is just part of life.

However, you can set up the Browser Operator to handle routine tasks automatically. Imagine just getting a notification that your phone bill has been paid instead of remembering to do it yourself. Thats not just
convenience but fewer minor annoyances cluttering your brain. Information filter

Keeping up with the internets relentless firehose of content might actually become manageable using the AI Operator. Staying informed today means subscribing to newsletters, following a bunch of blogs, and hoping the algorithm decides to show you nothing but cat videos. But the Browser
Operator could act as your own personal news curator.

You could tell it, Keep me updated on the latest breakthroughs in space exploration, and it would regularly collect and summarize the most relevant articles. Instead of wading through an endless news feed, youd get just what matters to you, neatly packaged. That way, you can stay informed without feeling like the internets infinite scroll has hijacked your entire day. Operator opening

The internet has always required us to be the operators; clicking, searching, navigating, managing. But with AI tools like this, that might be changing. Operas Browser Operator takes the first real step toward making the browser
an active participant instead of a passive tool. It doesnt just give you a
new way to browse; it changes what browsing is. Sure, this could make everything more efficient, but it also raises questions about what happens when we offload so much of our online activity to AI. If the internet can browse itself for us, how much do we really need to engage with it? Will we still know how to search for things manually in a few years, or will that start to feel as outdated as dialing a rotary phone?

For now, though, its hard not to be excited. This is the kind of innovation that makes you wonder how we ever lived without it. If AI can start handling the tedious parts of the internet, maybe well finally have time for the
things we actually enjoy. Or, more realistically, maybe well just use that extra time to doom-scroll even more efficiently. Either way, the future of browsing just got a lot more interesting. You might also like OpenAI's first AI Agent is here, and Operator can make a dinner reservation and complete other tasks on the web for you I discovered a surprising difference between DeepSeek and ChatGPT search capabilities Opera brings its web browser and AI assistant to iOS



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