sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 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-square325fedilinkarrow-up1963arrow-down121cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1942arrow-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 · 7 days agomessage-square325fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareComet79@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoThey did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don’t use Chrome.
minus-squareMwa@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoig imma stick to my Steam built in browser.
minus-squareDerpgon@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoWhat of you just keep an empty file in it’s place? Hopefully it doesn’t do a checksum.
minus-squarepossumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoEasy solution- use Firefox or Librewolf instead.
minus-squareBad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoFirefox has a new CEO who is pivoting the project into being an “AI Browser”.
minus-squareaphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 days agoThere is a windows registry tweak to disable it permanently. Just search up the proper key.
minus-squareinnermachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoInteresting. This update is not on my phone or my PC, which are both up to date. Wonder who it’s installing on.
They did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don’t use Chrome.
ig imma stick to my Steam built in browser.
What of you just keep an empty file in it’s place? Hopefully it doesn’t do a checksum.
Easy solution- use Firefox or Librewolf instead.
Firefox has a new CEO who is pivoting the project into being an “AI Browser”.
There is a windows registry tweak to disable it permanently. Just search up the proper key.
Interesting. This update is not on my phone or my PC, which are both up to date. Wonder who it’s installing on.