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Developer flags privacy concerns with screenshot SaaS APIs
Original: Ran into this building an agent that needed to look at web pages. Every screenshot API is SaaS, which is fine, until you
A developer building an AI agent that needs to view web pages ran into a problem: every screenshot capture API is a hosted SaaS service, meaning the text and content of every captured page is sent to and processed by a third party. For publicly available pages this may be acceptable, but it raises privacy and control concerns, prompting the developer to look at self-hosted alternatives.
Why now: Privacy concerns about sending scraped web content to third-party APIs are a live debate among developers building AI agents.
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- Ran into this building an agent that needed to look at web pages. Every screenshot API is SaaS, which is fine, until you notice the page-understanding part runs on their model. So the text of every page you capture gets sent to a third party and processed there. For a public… · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 4
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