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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. by filt in c/technology@hexbear.net

[-] filt 23 points 2 days ago

Re-read the article. It's not remotely like Firefox.

The point is that Chrome without any authorization from the user, nor notification to the user, is going to utilize 4GB worth of bandwidth as well as disk space. It is dishonest and a bad practice.

You can't turn it off in settings, you have to set flags to turn it off. This disqualifies normal everyday users from knowing how or why this is happening.

Your comments are disingenuous and seems like you're just here to be a Google and "AI" apologist.

This behavior by Google is gross, and any company or person that thinks it's acceptable is equally gross. The author thoughtfully cites pieces of the GDPR and other acceptable computing policies and laws which this behavior contravenes. They also discuss the environmental impacts of this behavior.

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog by filt in c/worldnews@aussie.zone

DUckDuckGo is actually unusable now. I keep using it and literally every time for the best, like, 6 months it shows me complete trash unless I'm searching for something I can filter out. by filt in c/technology@hexbear.net

[-] filt 3 points 1 week ago

At least it works and doesn't serve me AI slop for every result soooo 🤷

What browser do you all like? by filt in c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

[-] filt 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Using waterfox on both mobile and desktop with ublock, great times.

DUckDuckGo is actually unusable now. I keep using it and literally every time for the best, like, 6 months it shows me complete trash unless I'm searching for something I can filter out. by filt in c/technology@hexbear.net

[-] filt 5 points 1 week ago

🤣

DUckDuckGo is actually unusable now. I keep using it and literally every time for the best, like, 6 months it shows me complete trash unless I'm searching for something I can filter out. by filt in c/technology@hexbear.net

[-] filt 11 points 1 week ago

Apparently y'all haven't heard of 100searchengines.com

If you haven't check it before now, you're welcome for bringing you back to results that actually show you things you're looking for instead of complete garbage. Enjoy.

Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue by filt in c/firefox@lemmy.ml

[-] filt 21 points 1 month ago

The financial decision part is regarding search ads with Startpage. Again, read the article.

“I had umm I had a uhh…” “An epiphany?” “Uh no no it was more like a realization but on a grand scale.” “An epiphany.” “No no it had like religious proportions to it.” “You’re describing an epiphany.” by filt in c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca

[-] filt 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I call it the No Bullet Theory. His head just did that.

🤣

“I had umm I had a uhh…” “An epiphany?” “Uh no no it was more like a realization but on a grand scale.” “An epiphany.” “No no it had like religious proportions to it.” “You’re describing an epiphany.” by filt in c/the_kids_in_the_hall@lemmy.ca

[-] filt 6 points 1 month ago

The wrong guy is a comedy masterpiece, unbelievable. 🤣👌💯