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Currently using Helium.
This one looks neat, is it also based on Chromium?
Yes.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
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#232Framing 4GB of data moving in a world of petabytes of traffic as a specific environmental disaster is kind of a stretch, regardless of whether we want the model.
60.000.000 kg ÷ 1.000.000.000 user is about 60 gramms of co2 per user?
Which ullustrates that humanity has reached such numbers that the smallest collective change has an enormous impact.
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#233Well, npm install … did worse
that's a willing act - you are actively asking npm to download something, and accepting it might be terrible for you.
Here chrome is just installing things behind your back, whether you really want it or not.
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#234How hard would have been to add a simple message, warning people about it and offering to opt out? Most would have clicked OK without reading anyway, and Google could pretend they give a shit about users. Unless they expected blowback, and that kind of message is the "compromise" they want to eventually land on.
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#235I can't read the article (503) but does anyone know why someone calling themselves that privacy guy is installing Google Chrome?
Maybe in order to document a privacy problem with it that they heard about.
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#236Why use a browser from Google or Microsoft in 2026? Why in the world?
What browsers would you recommend? I use Brave but it's still Chromium under the hood. It's the only one that I never had trouble with adblock though. Also lets me play youtube on mobile when my screen is locked.
Vivaldi - built in ad blocker, the creator is a nice guy, transparent business model. It might be rough around the edges, but it's much better from every alternative imho.
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#237Anyone, voluntarily installing a spy browser like Google Chrome on their devices, deserves this and much more.
For many, it's also involuntarily installed (e.g. corporate, vendor etc).
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I have no idea but when I mention Firefox my colleagues under 35 or so literally think I'm joking.
When Google stuffs AI into everything, people shrug. Can't expect anything else from big tech. When Firefox does it, it sparks outrage across the internet, with entire forums filled with people vowing to leave Firefox forever and switching to something like Waterfor or Ilp/Zorp/Floop instead. As a result, searching for experiences other people had with Firefox makes it sound like hell on earth, while people have litt…
> When Google stuffs AI into everything, people shrug. Can't expect anything else from big tech.
Because this is something expected from Google. Google has never committed to security, but Mozilla did.
EDIT: I meant privacy, not security.
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