This absurd disregard for consent is why my computer is full of so many spite forks of stuff.
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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.
#privacy #google #gemini
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.
That Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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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.
#privacy #google #gemini
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.
That Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
@paco I share your pain.
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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.
#privacy #google #gemini
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.
That Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
First time I've heard of Waterfox. I'll have to give it a try on my Debian box.
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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.
#privacy #google #gemini
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.
That Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
@paco
Gram, interesting. I can't keep up with all of these, I'm still using Codium. -
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