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sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 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 · 2 days ago
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    Companies.
    And you, if you work for a company.

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      The corporate images for our company come with Firefox ESR, and you can file an automated request for Chrome if you want it added 🤷‍♂️

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        That’s dope. And rare. Good on them.

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          Same here. Our IT guys have good taste in browsers, but they also know that some people in the company may still need one of the messy sites that are incompatible with web standards. Chrome is for those edge cases.

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            I got the short end when i was in the office. Edge and chrome were it. And there was a white list. They even monitored when the TV was turned on.

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        Will intern 4 free 4 FF ESR

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