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Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent — That Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[–] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Here's the link from that article that explains how to disable and remove it, since the text of the article doesn't include it.

https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago*

    The linked page accesses at least 10 other sites for scripts, and is more than 2 MB big. It could have been a 458 byte page:

    Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:

    1. Backup registry
    2. Start
    3. regedit
    4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
    5. right-click Policies, New, Key
    6. confirm Google, Enter
    7. right-click Google, New, Key
    8. confirm Chrome, Enter
    9. right-click Chrome, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value
    10. confirm GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings, Enter
    11. right-click newly created key, Modify
    12. set value to 1
    13. OK
    14. Restart computer.
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