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Thanks for the reminder to permanently uninstall Chrome. So glad I haven't accidentally launched that recently at any point.
Update: I had to use fucking CCleaner to do it because it wouldn't let me.
Goddamn scumfucking psychopaths.
Because it’s not your computer…
Oof. I sent this to my family and got a negatory response. They don't want to hear it.
Don't help the next time they ask you to fix their computer lol
I remember when Google's motto was "don't be evil". I guess they've moved on from that.
all capitalists will move on from the models they use as sales tactics when getting initial chunks of cash from stockholders or the public. corporations are only capable of being evil. there is no such thing as a not-evil corporation.
The clear signal when you remove the sign outside your house of "don't be evil" is that you are, in fact, now evil. Why else would you remove that sign?
They did in fact a few years ago silently remove it
I guess they realized that money is evil, and not being evil is bad for business.
And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
Google is catching up with Apples storage abuse. Unremovable system data bloat is criminal and anti consumer.
Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking.
What a weird scare-mongery way of saying "Google Chrome installs things it uses".
It's fine if you don't want it using that much space - but don't act like it's doing anything nefarious.
Good slop, please sir may I have some more?
They just keep digging themselves into the terrible hole.
Remember when the pretty universal convention was that an OS let you pick the components you wanted to install?
This is not the OS fault: since you assumed risk to install Chrome, the OS assumed you trusted the application to operate without interrupting its functionality by asking you permission to download text, images and web content every time you loaded a web page.
Its Chrome abusing this trust to download shit without tell you.
Nah, Microsoft is doing the exact same thing.
Y'know what? My brain replaced Chrome with Android and I went to the 2GB of AI model that they bundle with the OS now (maybe just pixel devices)
(Also before anyone fancies getting sanctimonious, Apple bundles a 3GB model with all their shit too)
Bye bye google. Your time has passed. I won't miss you.
Google's time passed decades ago.
People have been saying this for like a decade and it keeps getting worse.
I mean, that kind of thing is expected with Google products. The depressing thing is that no one who is paying attention will be surprised when Firefox announces they are going to do something similar.
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