<![CDATA[This absurd disregard for consent is why my computer is full of so many spite forks of stuff.]]>This absurd disregard for consent is why my computer is full of so many spite forks of stuff. gram instead of zed instead of VS Code. Waterfox instead of Firefox instead of Chrome. Debian instead of macOS instead of Windows. And on and on.

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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. — That Privacy Guy!

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.

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Gram, interesting. I can't keep up with all of these, I'm still using Codium.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/FritzAdalis/statuses/116525147025190585https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/FritzAdalis/statuses/116525147025190585Wed, 06 May 2026 01:57:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This absurd disregard for consent is why my computer is full of so many spite forks of stuff. on Tue, 05 May 2026 23:43:26 GMT]]>@paco

First time I've heard of Waterfox. I'll have to give it a try on my Debian box.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/users/markgrieveson/statuses/116524620639318554https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/users/markgrieveson/statuses/116524620639318554Tue, 05 May 2026 23:43:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This absurd disregard for consent is why my computer is full of so many spite forks of stuff. on Tue, 05 May 2026 23:29:18 GMT]]>@paco I share your pain.

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