Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
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
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