"fury and “sneakily” are loaded terms. You can find a furious person on any topic on social media and “sneakily” is nonsense, they were trying to delete a file that Chrome requires and so Chrome fixes the install when it runs.
They even note that you can disable it in settings, though not without making it sound like an unusually hard thing to do: “manually digging through setting”
Clickbait headline, ragebait article. Anything for some advertising dollars.
I agree it’s a hyperbolic headline and article; more of an opinion piece than news. It’s subjective but I think I would describe it as “sneaky” to add a 4gb AI component to a browser. The AI features were added as a default feature, opt-outs were only added later, and the users are not asked for permission before the download of the 4gb file to support the AI service. This doesn’t benefit users; it benefits Google in it’s quest to try to dominate the AI space by pushing it’s own AI features and integrations.
Clickbait headline.
"fury and “sneakily” are loaded terms. You can find a furious person on any topic on social media and “sneakily” is nonsense, they were trying to delete a file that Chrome requires and so Chrome fixes the install when it runs.
They even note that you can disable it in settings, though not without making it sound like an unusually hard thing to do: “manually digging through setting”
Clickbait headline, ragebait article. Anything for some advertising dollars.
I agree it’s a hyperbolic headline and article; more of an opinion piece than news. It’s subjective but I think I would describe it as “sneaky” to add a 4gb AI component to a browser. The AI features were added as a default feature, opt-outs were only added later, and the users are not asked for permission before the download of the 4gb file to support the AI service. This doesn’t benefit users; it benefits Google in it’s quest to try to dominate the AI space by pushing it’s own AI features and integrations.