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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs

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Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

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Google's web browser has been "silently" installing an AI model on users' devices without asking for consent.

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If yt-dlp is a browser, then so is curl
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  Fair, I guess I was referring more to their home grown JavaScript interpreter.

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