sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 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-square334linkfedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down123cross-posted to: enshitification@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up11.01Karrow-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 · 25 days agomessage-square334linkfedilinkcross-posted to: enshitification@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareDerpgon@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 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-up2·24 days agoEasy solution- use Firefox or Librewolf instead.
minus-squareBad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoFirefox has a new CEO who is pivoting the project into being an “AI 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”.