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sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days 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.

www.thatprivacyguy.com

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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

sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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    uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

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      Uninstalled Chrome and Windows a looooooong time ago on my computer

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        You had Chrome installed?

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          You guys have computers?

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            Hey, when I was a kid I had a slide rule.

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              Back in my day, computer was a job, and all you had was an abacus. We liked it that way. None of this newfangled al-gebra nonsense.

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            I am a meat popsicle.

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      I’ve used Firefox since 2004 and never once thought about using Chrome.

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        Well I’ve used Firefox before it was even publicly released. Checkmate.

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