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lechekaflan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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Google 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.com

lechekaflan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours ago
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    Absolutely unacceptable. I’d already decided against using chrome on any of my devices, now I’m going to recheck that I removed the browsers completely.

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      oh, you made me realize that not using it isn’t enough and I too, need to check if it’s not installed somewhere

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    It’s almost as if Big Tech thinks the stuff we buy with our own money belongs to them…

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    Ungoogled Chromium, for the addicts.

    Or Chromite.

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      Or Firefox to get rid of WebKit/Blink

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    Joke’s on them, I only have 1gb/month of mobile data.

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