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Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent — That Privacy Guy!
(www.thatprivacyguy.com)
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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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: