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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. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Who still uses Chrome?

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Companies.
And you, if you work for a company.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The corporate images for our company come with Firefox ESR, and you can file an automated request for Chrome if you want it added 🤷‍♂️

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's dope. And rare. Good on them.

[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same here. Our It guys have good taste in browsers, but they also know that some people in the company may still need one of the messy sites that are incompatible with web standards. Chrome is for those edge cases.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I got the short end when i was in the office. Edge and chrome were it. And there was a white list. They even monitored when the TV was turned on.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Will intern 4 free 4 FF ESR

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Got a notice just yesterday that my browser wasn't supported on a site and I needed the latest version of chrome. Luckily chromium fooled it. So... Chrome is still the IE of the modern web.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Most middle and high schoolers use chromebooks nowadays.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Who still uses [literally the most-used thing in its field]?

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

68% of all browser traffic, with Safari at a close second with 17%

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is a technical response to a philosophical question.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was a philosophical question posed about a technical matter.

Okay, succinctness aside, I get that you're trying to imply that the kind of person who still uses Chrome is basically asking to be mistreated (I think?) - but the author's point about climate impact depends on user count, not user personality.