And that will be 4GB per chrome instance I assume? (not profiles, instances) And what happens with each electron app if it uses chrome?
languagemodel should be an OS service..
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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I have no idea but when I mention Firefox my colleagues under 35 or so literally think I'm joking.
They've been consuming 15+ years of anti-Mozilla rants anytime it or Firefox are mentioned online. It's how you get things like "Browser monocultures are an issue, so don't use Chrome (Blink), use Brave (Chromium (Blink)) instead!" said in earnest.
I mean ... frankly, and I say this as a guy who's used solely Firefox since before it was Firefox all the way until 2025 when I finally got sick & tired of their shit... (now on WaterFox because I refuse to submit to the Google browser monopoly)
... Mozilla absolutely did this to themselves. Come think of it, they really remind me of what Microsift's been doing with Windows.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't have to have the sidebar chatbot thing. When mozilla added these AI features, after the update the browser prompted me to whether I want it or not, with the "yes" and "no" being equally easy to select. It did not add them without consent. You can disable all AI features altogether, or you can completely remove chatbot sidebar specifically (with 2 clicks) and have the rest of the features if you want them. G…
This is article about Chrome doing something undesirable with AI. Which can be easily disabled by going into chrome://flags. And suggestion is to download Firefox which is also doing something undesirable with AI. Which is also can be easily disabled. Seems both browsers are quite similar in this regard, so suggestion to replace one with another is not very helpful?
ff doesn't download models unless you so opt in.
Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
#254Framing 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.
What is a lot of traffic to you? 2.5 million downloads of 4 GB are 10 PB of traffic. I think there are be a lot more than 2.5 million Chrome users in the world.
More data moves in your average playstation system update than that. Steam probably transmits more in a morning than that
Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
#255How 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.
They don't want you to opt out. Then they can't brag to the shareholders about Chrome being "AI Powered"
You're not even the customer when it comes to Google.
Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've been consuming 15+ years of anti-Mozilla rants anytime it or Firefox are mentioned online. It's how you get things like "Browser monocultures are an issue, so don't use Chrome (Blink), use Brave (Chromium (Blink)) instead!" said in earnest.
I’ve been using Firefox for 20+ years and continue to do so, but let’s not pretend that Firefox hasn’t been an embarrassing shit show for most of the past 15.
I'd recommend checking out WaterFox. It's what I switched to when I finally got sick & tired of Mozilla's shit.
Re: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
#257I can't for the life of me understand how this browser has become the world's most used. It's literally from an ad company.
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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.
How do you propose maintaining the living conditions you've become accustomed to without the system we have currently, as shit as it is?
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Switched over to Waterfox recently, nice alternative with some added extras for privacy etc.
Isn't waterfox owned by an ad company? Might as well be the Google of the fire fox browsers.
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is a lot of traffic to you? 2.5 million downloads of 4 GB are 10 PB of traffic. I think there are be a lot more than 2.5 million Chrome users in the world.
More data moves in your average playstation system update than that. Steam probably transmits more in a morning than that
There are far more Google Chrome users than probably PlayStation & Steam users combined.
Also, someone installing Steam is going to expect large downloads, hell, the platform tells you the size as you're about to start the download.
I don't think anyone expects a browser to suddenly download 4GB, let alone behind their backs!