"weights" is damn right lol
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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People are shocked when the bad boyfriend (google) that people warned them about, do highly unethical things. That boyfriend only exists to use & abuse you, it has no other purpose anymore.
That "boyfriend" just makes money, he doesn't know or even care about your existence.
This argument irks me as it merely exists to wash the crimes of companies as if they exist on a different plane of existence where morality doesn't exist and people pretend corporates are not just a bunch of humans in a trench coat trying to commit the crime without doing the time.
Companies are not people. Companies don't share the moral with you. Crimes and moral are orthogonal at best.
Companies are created by and comprised of people. It's very clear that the concept of a company is meant to extract wealth by immoral means while shielding the owners from accountability and consequences that being a normal citizen cannot afford.
Companies are created by and comprised of people.
And people are comprised of neutrons and electrons. And surprisingly behave in a very different way.
that's not a honest argument is it now?
That boyfriend was once sweet, caring, quirky, and innovative once. He tried many things and was better than his older two brothers, the hip one who charged too much and the lame one that your parents were forced to deal with.
Somewhere along the way, he forgot his roots and became Jennifer Lopez.
His name is Jennifer Lopez, he likes burritos, and tacos
Yum lol
Bloatware, in my Google Chrome!?
No it isn’t. Because I don’t run anything from Google.
Let me guess, you run Linux?
I use Arch btw
My arch system runs an arch VM.
I use arch btw
No, I just don’t use anything from Google. What do they offer that is good anymore? Zero things.
Well I'm glad Google decided to bite the bullet and face the immense, Biblical backlash. So that Mozilla Corporation has a few new thoughts to ponder on.
Their idiot CEO will move forward with forcing AI onto people too. CEOs don’t learn.
I don't use chrome on my personal computer.
What if you keep the file around but write to it and zero size it? Does chrome still download the file again?
Eventually it'll update.
Not on my machine lol.
I wonder if they do it on phones as well. Not everyone has a 256GB+ device, and 4GB would be a significant chunk on even that.
On android phones I believe this is called Gemini Nano which is part of the Gemini app for Android and the android AIcore app. The AI core app supposedly eats up like 4-12GB of storage. I believe it's a system app that you can't uninstall.
Might be worth a look at your phone apps especially if you have a pixel phone.
What little I read about this it seems to only be on desktop. For now.
Some suit in the C Suite is having a wet dream though imagining the not so far off future where they can run shit like this on your phone.
It lets them artificially inflate user counts