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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)
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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (34 children)

How do we uninstall or block the download?

[–] livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 75 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Uninstall chrome

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So it just to the Chrome app?

[–] livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The article actually gives 3 options:

The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy tooling that home users do not generally have, or to uninstall Chrome entirely

  1. It can probably be reverted at their whim at any time
  2. You probably don't have access to it
  3. It is the most realistic option, just use another non chromium browser
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Even Chromium should be fine. I doubt it has the branded Google AI features.

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