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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)

submitted 1 week ago by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] unglueclass23@programming.dev 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Chrome chromium and any chromium based browser has the passwords as plaintext in dumps problem

I think it was only Edge

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thats wrong.
The person only tested it on Edge, and the media just copied it verbatim. But it works with any Chrome or Chromium-based browser. You can test it very easily. Launch the browser, save a random password in the built-in password manager, then close the browser. When you open the browser again, just create a dump and then search for the strings. It’s supposed to work across user accounts as well. I haven’t tested that yet, though.