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Man I sure do wish Linux mobile was a thing. I really want a full on Linux phone.
How unsurprising anymore in this hellish world where corporates hate your desire for anonymity… but try to hide theirs, such as dark expense accounts, tax evasion, secret offshore banking accounts, connections with crime and hate groups, etc.
My Google chrome took 10GB space on system disc so I needed to unistal it. Now I use only Firefox.
All solved with one simple step, DON’T INSTALL THIS GARBAGE!
At least all the carbon emissions will be offset by Windows being carbon aware! Right? Right…?!
“Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions.”
Now, excuse me as I generate a picture of a man with 15 fingers on my browser, using my computer with chatgpt built intp it, while next to my phone with Gemini built into my texting app and assistant and maps app and photos app and
i honestly feel proud that i left chrome years ago, when they removed manifest v2, it pushed me to switch to other browsers based on firefox, currently i use librewolf
so fucking glad I wiped that piece of shit off my devices.
it’s all been downhill since.
trained to click yes to anything. tl;dr legalese nobody reads
Hope they didnt hardcode it!
I can’t see any issues here.
You agree to download and install Chrome and all its elements.
The size of the file is therefore irrelevant.
Obviously it uses the cloud, you can’t run an AI model locally and it would be impossible to secure anyway.
Huh? What’s the name of it then? My Chrome is but an .exe with 4mb to it and I don’t see any 4GB…
Edit: From Article, “Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]”
So, morons who installed shitty AI are getting AI shafted - makes ALL the sense to me.
This seems rather silly to me
Out of all the stuff to worry about, this is what bothers them? Google isn’t exactly a saint.
Thank you for providing an actual solution, instead of parroting Linux like so many others.
Remember how few years ago there was a massive outcry when U2s album was downloaded to devices without permission?
To be fair, I’d probably prefer the 4gb model.
I remember when microslop was sued for monopoly antitrust for packaging a browser with it’s OS, pretty sure now in win 11 it resets default to Edge on every reboot.
Two decades. We’re old
As I said, few years ago.
I believe they did it a second time more recently.
It was last year. /s
Remember how pissed off everyone was when Sony added software to people’s computers?
Do you mean that time they installed a rootkit on people’s PCs when they went to play (what was supposed to be) a music CD, or the time they retroactively and remotely sabotaged Linux on people’s Playstations?
Just wondering which massive felony that should’ve landed the entire C-suite in prison you’re referring to, since there was more than one.
Hey come on now, there’s no need to lie. We all know that when the C-suite does it it’s not a crime in America. It’s illegal to hold them accountable!
/wrist :(
The sad thing is that Sony is multinational, and they weren’t prosecuted in Japan or anywhere else, either.
I think the rootkit was only on CD’s sold in North America. I could be wrong though.
Nope Europe too
major L
…did you mean to say Korea?
What do you mean? I don’t follow.
I may be a forgetful curmudgeon, but I sure remember those!
*shakes cane at things*
Remember when people used to go insane in newsgroups screaming bloat if a program update was 80 KB bigger than the previous version and now people do not notice an extra 4 GB.
My mom never used iTunes on her phone, meaning she never once put any music on her phone, and so she was completely confused/angry when she’d get in her car and suddenly it would pair and start playing this U2 album. She didn’t know how to stop it, so it would play over and over (she’d just drop the volume). It also didn’t help that the cover art is among the gayest things to ever appear on her phone screen. I’d come home to visit and get in her car and she’d just start hollering “this stupid thing, where did this come from?!?”
I remember when Sony installed rootkits on our home computers when we played CDs with music we bought.
I have not bought a single Sony device or product since.
Never forget.
If it was actually good people may not have cared so much.
Even if it was good - and it’s not - it’s still an incredibly unethical thing to do.
Agreed
Free music was awesome.
No they took payment
The big deal about that was that it was added to people’s libraries and couldn’t be removed.
This isn’t pushed in your face, and you can easily uninstall Chrome.
In a comment on another post about this the other day, I saw someone claim that they had to resort to CCleaner to remove Chrome off of their system after this update. Chrome wouldn’t let them uninstall the browser manually.
Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know, I haven’t used Chrome in a while and I’m not gonna install it just to try (or ever again - I like my ad blockers, thank you very much). But, with the current state of the software landscape, it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true.
Well, and it was U2.
Idk about that, you can’t uninstall any of the ai bs they put on phones and computers, from microsoft to android. You can’t uninstall edge on a newer computer either, not without being an IT specialist or whatever.
The U2 album could be easily removed. The issue is that the average iTunes user doesn’t remove songs from their libraries, and thus had no idea the option to do so even existed and just assumed they were stuck with the album.
The AI Mode pill in the Chrome 147 omnibox is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface - every query the user types into it is sent over the network to Google’s servers for processing by Google’s hosted models. The on-device Nano model is not invoked by the AI Mode UI flow at all. They are entirely separate code paths - the most visible AI affordance in the browser does not use the local model the user has been silently given, and the features that do use the local model (Help-Me-Write in <textarea>, tab-group AI suggestions, smart paste, page summary) are buried in textarea-context menus and tab-group right-click menus that the average user will discover, on average, never.
What a double kick to the dick. First, they silently download 4gb to your disk, and they still fucking send your shit to their cloud AI.
4GB is now a Nano model?
It’s probably a typo and supposed to be Nanu. In German, nanu is an expression of surprise. This model’s slogan is “Nanu, wo kommt das denn her?” meaning “Huh, where did this come from?”.
That’s interesting. It’s an “old man” way of saying “nani?!” in Japanese.
Was Mork attempting a surprised German, an elderly Japanese man, or some strange third thing?
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>cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface
😡🤢🤮
