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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by scorpioxy »

ponyous wrote: post #3

The site is currently unavailable 503 so I can't read it. But I wonder, what should you consent to? Every dependency? Every dependency above 1GB?

Maybe consent is not an appropriate term. Perhaps an acknowledgement and a way to say "I don't want this" would be a more suitable approach. I feel like a flag to turn off LLMs is useful. Firefox added something like this in a recent release. I don't know how much they're downloading or how much they run it, nor would I be a good judge if it's necessary or not, but I don't want that functionality in my browser so turned it off.

Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by fsflover »

jacquesm wrote: post #6

Not on my devices. Auto update has been abused so often now that it is an embarrassment to the industry. Auto update should be for bug fixes and security issues only.

This is exactly how it works on Debian. Can recommend.

Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by trvz »

nottorp wrote: post #4
ponyous wrote: post #3

The site is currently unavailable 503 so I can't read it. But I wonder, what should you consent to? Every dependency? Every dependency above 1GB?

Extra power and ram usage without your permission, for example.

Read the article, it's not about that, but a mere 4GB of storage.

Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by jacquesm »

fsflover wrote: post #15
jacquesm wrote: post #6

Not on my devices. Auto update has been abused so often now that it is an embarrassment to the industry. Auto update should be for bug fixes and security issues only.

This is exactly how it works on Debian. Can recommend.

Guess what runs my PC. Tech companies just don't understand consent.

Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by mightysashiman »

nottorp wrote: post #4
ponyous wrote: post #3

The site is currently unavailable 503 so I can't read it. But I wonder, what should you consent to? Every dependency? Every dependency above 1GB?

Extra power and ram usage without your permission, for example.

Don't install chrome in the first place then

Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Post by flanked-evergl »

This is a bit disingenuous. If you install Chrome, you install Chrome and all it's parts. They don't ask your consent for individual parts because that would be absurd. If you don't want Chrome and all its parts, don't use it.
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