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The slow death of the power user.
"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome…
#AI #privacy #ePrivacy #Compliance #GDPR #Google #Chrome #Gemini #ESG #Environment #Sustainability #Climate #law
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
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.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
