Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Well, there are, but they just happen to be using webkitgtk2 or qtwebkit, which can be problematic on websites made with modern, bloated frameworks. And, ad blocking options are more limited absent ublock. Depends on your definition of good I suppose. I much prefer minimalist browsers, like vimb, and then just avoid bloated and ad-riddled sites. But, I inevitably need to use librewolf for some stuff.
Dozens of other good browsers?? What world are you living in lmaoo
Well, there are, but they just happen to be using webkitgtk2 or qtwebkit, which can be problematic on websites made with modern, bloated frameworks. And, ad blocking options are more limited absent ublock. Depends on your definition of good I suppose. I much prefer minimalist browsers, like vimb, and then just avoid bloated and ad-riddled sites. But, I inevitably need to use librewolf for some stuff.
edit: on linux anyway