sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comexternal-linkmessage-square322fedilinkarrow-up1962arrow-down121cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1941arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.www.thatprivacyguy.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square322fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoProbably not stock Android. I’m on GrapheneOS and it doesn’t come with Chrome at all. But I don’t think the article is claiming it happens on Android.
minus-squareFE80@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoVanadium is Chrome derived; but I’m sure Graphene de-enshittifies it to the maximum possible extent.
minus-squareAttacker94@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoTechnically speaking, it is chromium derived which does make the difference in this instance.
Probably not stock Android. I’m on GrapheneOS and it doesn’t come with Chrome at all. But I don’t think the article is claiming it happens on Android.
Vanadium is Chrome derived; but I’m sure Graphene de-enshittifies it to the maximum possible extent.
Technically speaking, it is chromium derived which does make the difference in this instance.